Paying My Debts (Demo)

I was cast out of Eden and driven out east
In my darkest hour turned to crime

I was sentenced to jail where I was beaten and starved
I was murdered time after time after time

Treat a man like a dog and that's what he'll become
He'll grovel today but soon his time will come
A man can be pushed, made to endure all pain
But one day like a noose, he'll reach his breaking strain

In an act of defense or defiance or rage
I savagely beat my cellmate

So they shackled my legs and threw me in a gang
To clear an old graveyard to lay down some track

I felt like a beast running hurt, blind and bleeding
Knowing somewhere a cliff is ahead
The bossman would watch from the shade of a tree
And drive me 'til I was near dead

The boss licked his chops and said "Get back to work
Or I'll throw your bones down in the hole"

Like a pot boiling over and snuffing out its fire
My soul burned as black as a coal

I'm no bossman's dog, my back won't stoop far
My home's not in heaven, I don't run from war
I say a man can be pushed but when there's nothing left at stake
Sooner or later he'll break

My eyes filled with blood so I picked up a bone
And I cleaved his fat head clean in two

He fell into the dust as I spat on his face
"Brother, the same goes for you"