Can I Forgive Him

[Verse 1] I am esmeralda agron, senora 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, senora 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, senora The state will see to that, i am sure 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, senora 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 [Chorus] Can i forgive him? Can i forgive him? No, i cannot Can i forgive him No, i cannot [Bridge] 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 [Chorus] Can i forgive him No, i cannot Can i forgive him No [Verse 2] 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 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 [Chorus] Can't wake Can i forgive him? Can i forgive him No, i cannot [Outro] Can t forgive him? Can i forgive him, no, i cannot Can i forgive him? Can 1 forgive him, no, i cannot Can i forgive him No, i cannot