Paul Simon - Can I Forgive Him Lyrics

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ESMERALDA

I am Esmeralda Agr Sera.

I know I've no right to speak.

My son is not the savage boy you see

The cape the sneer the

Slicked-back hair

It hides the child I nursed

And bathed Sera.

Please don't turn your eyes from me

Your son gone to God

And mine to blame

My fated son

He too is gone

The state will see to that

I am sure Sera

The state will see to that I am sure.

1ST MOTHER

You Spanish people you

Come to this country

Nothing here changes your lives

Ungrateful immigrants asking for pity

When all of your answers are knives

This city makes a cartoon of a crime

Capes and umbrellas the

Glorification of slime

I have to face this horror Sera.

2ND MOTHER

My religion

Asks me to pray for the murderer's soul

But I think you'd have to be

Jesus on the cross

To open your heart after such a loss

Can I forgive him?

Can I forgive him?

No I cannot

Can I forgive him

No I cannot

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Friends become strangers

Compassion is hard to express in words

The trembling flowers they bring

Fear in the roots and the stem

What happened to me they know

Could happen to them.

Can I forgive him

No I cannot

Can I forgive him

No

ESMERALDA

Only God can say 'Forgive'

His son too received a knife

But we go on we have to live

With this cross we call our life

1ST MOTHER

Feels like a bomb fell

And wave after wave come

The aftershocks

2ND MOTHER

You can't believe that it's true

There must be some mistake

You drift through this

Nightmare from which you

Can't wake

BOTH MOTHERS

Can I forgive him?

Can I forgive him

No I cannot

Can I forgive him?

Can I forgive him no I cannot

Can I forgive him?

Can I forgive him no I cannot

Can I forgive him

No I cannot.

Lead Vocal Acoustic Guitar-Paul Simon

Recorded at Paul Simon's home

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