<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=93634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Can I Forgive Him</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Esmeralda<br>I am esmeralda agrn, se? ora.<br>I know Ive no right to speak.<br>My son is not the savage boy you see,<br>The cape, the sneer, the slicked-back hair<br>It hides the child I nursed and bathed, se? ora.<br>Please dont turn your eyes from me<br>Your son, gone to god, and mine to blame<br>My fated son,<br>He too is gone<br>The state will see to that, I am sure, se? ora<br>The state will see to that, I am sure.<br>1st mother<br>You spanish people, you come to this country<br>Nothing here changes your lives<br>Ungrateful immigrants asking for pity<br>When all of your answers are knives<br>This city makes a cartoon of a crime<br>Capes and umbrellas the glorification of slime<br>I have to face this horror, se? ora.<br>2nd mother<br>My religion<br>Asks me to pray for the murderers soul<br>But I think youd have to be<br>Jesus on the cross<br>To open your heart after such a loss<br>Can I forgive him? <br>Can I forgive him? <br>No, I cannot<br>Can I forgive him<br>No, I cannot<br>Friends become strangers<br>Compassion is hard to express in words<br>The trembling flowers they bring<br>Fear in the roots and the stem<br>What happened to me they know could happen to them.<br>Can I forgive him<br>No, I cannot<br>Can I forgive him<br>No<br>Esmeralda<br>Only God can say forgive<br>His son too received a knife<br>But we go on, we have to live<br>With this cross we call our life<br>1st mother<br>Feels like a bomb fell<br>And wave after wave come the aftershocks<br>2nd mother<br>You cant believe that its true<br>There must be some mistake<br>You drift through this nightmare from which you cant wake<br>Both mothers<br>Can I forgive him? <br>Can I forgive him,<br>No, I cannot<br>Can I forgive him? <br>Can I forgive him, no, I cannot<br>Can I forgive him? <br>Can I forgive him, no, I cannot<br>Can I forgive him<br>No, I cannot.<br>Lead vocal, acoustic guitar-paul simon<br>Recorded at paul simons home</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />song performed by by Paul Simon - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=93634" data-title="Can I Forgive Him" data-description="Esmeralda I am esmeralda agrn, se? ora. I know Ive 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, se? ora. Please dont turn your eyes from me Your son, go..."></div> </div> </div>

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