Album: Toys In The Attic (1975)

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• Back when Cain was able
  Way before the stable
  Lightning shot right out from the sky
  A mothership with fate said let's give it a try
  
  Conscience was related
  Man, he was created
  Lady luck took him by surprise
  Her sweet and bitter fruit
  It surely opened his eyes
  
  Well, she ate it
  Lordy, it was love at first bite
  Well, she ate it
  Never knowin' wrong for right, right, right, right
  
  Even Eve in eden
  Voices tried deceivin'
  With lies to show the lady the way
  At first she stopped and turned
  And tried to walk away
  
  Man, he was believer
  Lady was deceiver
  So the story goes, but you see
  The snake was he and she just climbed right up his tree
  
  So, she ate it
  Lordy, it was love at first bite
  Well, she ate it
  Never knowin' wrong for right, right, right
  
  Conscience was related
  Man, he was created
  When lady luck took him by surprise
  Her sweet and bitter fruits
  Surely opened his eyes
  
  Evil came like rain
  And who knows who's to blame
  And something tried to lay her to waste
  And all she want to need was just a little taste
  
  So, she ate it
  Lordy, it was love at first bite
  Yeah, she ate it
  Never knowin' wrong for right, right, right, right
  Well, she ate it
  Lordy, it was love at first bite
  Yeah, she ate it
  Never knowing wrong from right, right,
  Well that's right Writer/s: Steven Tyler
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 12

• Ken From Kent from Oc@Randy C. from Yonkers, Ny In the seventies they wrote their own stuff. It was in the 80s while making a little comeback that they started cowriting. Then in the 90s they had to make another little comeback with that song from Armageddon, which was originally written for NSync or some other boy band. The guitar player is the great Joe Perry. Hired guns learned how to play like him amongst other rock gods
• Joe Rochester from OhioWho played the opening riff to Adams Apple,probably Joe but was just wondering.
• Kevin from East CoastMichael Hritz said below, In the songfacts it says, "In fact, God just wanted them kept in the dark. If they ate the fruit, they wouldn't die . . . ". This is obviously not correct. Unless you know someone who met Adam and Eve (and I don't know of anyone who has), the general consensus among most people is that they did in fact die. God did not say that they would die immediately upon eating the fruit; but prior to eating, they would have lived forever. They both ate the fruit, and they both died. So the second part of my quote is proven false." It was Satan that said that not God.
• Michael Hritz from TexasIn the songfacts it says, "In fact, God just wanted them kept in the dark. If they ate the fruit, they wouldn't die . . . ". This is obviously not correct. Unless you know someone who met Adam and Eve (and I don't know of anyone who has), the general consensus among most people is that they did in fact die. God did not say that they would die immediately upon eating the fruit; but prior to eating, they would have lived forever. They both ate the fruit, and they both died. So the second part of my quote is proven false.
  The first part I quoted is also not true. God did not want to keep them in the dark; in fact, they weren't even in the dark: they were in the light, so much so that they were clothed in light as with a garment. That is why it was only after eating that they noticed that they were naked and made themselves some fig-leaf clothes to wear (which also indicates that their consciences were not entirely corrupt, only partially). Their consciences were still active enough to have the decency to put on some clothes (unlike so many female diva pop stars today!). The truth is, God wanted to keep them in His light. But God did not punish Adam and Eve by sending them death - rather, death was sent as a remedy. Through eating, they had lost communion with God, and death was a way to restore man to union with Himself.
• Jack from Mesa, AzCain got in trouble with God for killing Abel so I suppose Cain was "able" before that, Amanda from Ridgewood. It's just a kind of messy play on words I guess.
• Sam from London, On@Randy So where did you get this notion? From what I've read and from being a major fan, I've learned they have written MOST of their songs. What they haven't written is mostly song covers. Great covers at that. Aerosmith has talent. REAL talent. They became famous with their own songs and their own skills and character. Not because daddy was rich. Don't you sit there and spread that nonsense.
• Chris from San Diego, Ca@Homer: "Lightning struck right down from the sky /
  A mother ship with fate said let's give it a try"
• Randy C. from Yonkers, NyTo me, the question isn't what the song means. Instead, my question is who wrote it? Trust me, this band wrote very little of their own music. Surely they put their two cents into most of the songs, however, that's about it. And the electric guitar work in this song? Can you say hire guns?
• Amanda from Ridgewood, NjCorrect me if I'm wrong, but the first line "Back when Cain was Able", But Cain and Able were the sons of Adam and Eve so it might have a double meaning. Despite Able being spelled Abel for his name.
• Homer from Springfield, KyStephen:How exactly does it refer to aliens?
• Jason from Denver, CoThis song has a great opening guitar riff as well as a great dual lead guitar solo in it
• Stephen from Toronto, CanadaWhile this song speaks of Adam and Eve and certainly has sexual overtones (which Aerosmith song dosen't) it also makes reference to extraterestrials, the snake, original sin... good stuff like that.

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