PAUL SIMON - Can I Forgive Him lyrics

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Esmeralda

I am esmeralda agrónse? ora.

I know I've no right to speak.

My son is not the savage boy you see

The capethe sneerthe slicked-back hair

It hides the child I nursed and bathedse? ora.

Please don't turn your eyes from me

Your songone to godand mine to blame

My fated son

He too is gone

The state will see to thatI am surese? ora

The state will see to thatI am sure.

1st mother

You spanish peopleyou 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 horrorse? ora.

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?

NoI cannot

Can I forgive him

NoI cannot

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

NoI cannot

Can I forgive him

No

Esmeralda

Only God can say 'forgive'

His son too received a knife

But we go onwe 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

NoI cannot

Can I forgive him?

Can I forgive himnoI cannot

Can I forgive him?

Can I forgive himnoI cannot

Can I forgive him

NoI cannot.

Lead vocalacoustic guitar-paul simon

Recorded at paul simon's home