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shai linne - In Adam All Die
(from the album The Atonement)
© copyright 2008

Hook:
We’re cursed from our birth, sinning from the beginning/
The womb to the tomb, depraved to the grave/
Astray every day, every breath brings death/
In Adam all die, In Adam all die/
We’re rebels like the devil, scheming like demons/
Prideful with our idols, disgusting with our lusting/
Twisted and sin-sick, selfish and helpless/
In Adam all die, In Adam all die.

Verse 1:
Everybody knows that they’re guilty/
Our conscience condemns us, shows us we’re filthy/
Truth be told, we really have no answers/
For why we fall short of our own moral standards/
The evidence for God is simply bountiful/
And it’s illogical to think we won’t be held accountable/
A universal day of judgment approaches/
Any rational notion of justice would presuppose this/
And deep down inside, everybody knows this/
But we disregard it because our deeds are atrocious/
We prefer the vicious, our words are malicious/
Our slurs pernicious, we find the absurd delicious/
Depraved in our appetites- the things we crave are lacking light/
Because sin’s got us enslaved and shackled tight/
And if we are to understand the fruit/
We need to go back and examine the root.

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Verse 2:
The world we live in wasn’t always like this/
The early days had perfect righteousness and bright bliss/
Man and woman under God-ruled government at first/
Bubbling with mirth, immersed in loving with no hurts/
God gave what theologians call the covenant of works/
Forbidden fruit- the day you eat of it you’ll be cursed/
Husband wasn’t alert; wife lacked discernment/
Entrapped by the serpent and that was the first sin/
The consequences were monumental/
In fact, I’m not convinced they had a clue of what they’d gotten into/
Their eyes were opened more- truth in the lies/
To their surprise, they didn’t get the prize they were hoping for/
They see their nakedness and now regret it/
They tried to cover their guilt and then blame shift- how pathetic/
And it’s a true story- you want some evidence/
We’ve been doing the same thing ever since.

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Verse 3:
We talk Adam and Eve, cats think we’re "throwed off", really/
They don’t think it relates to thugs in North Philly/
But it’s like Switchfoot said- we were meant to live/
But in the garden Adam was our representative/
So when the Judge executed the sentence/
Adam’s guilt was imputed to his descendents/
Global calamity/
Major debt, pain, regret, the reign of death- total depravity/
And yes, I’m aware that cats were not there/
Which opens the door to charges of “that’s not fair”/
But God is not subject to fallen notions of fairness/
Besides, when it comes to God’s glory, most could care less/
We can’t measure how we chase sand treasures/
And banned pleasures- similar to our ancestors/
So instead of saying if you were there what you would do/
Seek your refuge in Adam number two.

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