Lyrics Can I Forgive Him (original demo) - Paul Simon
ESMERALDA
I
am
Esmeralda
Agr髇,
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.
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,
Senora.
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
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.
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2 Take Me to the Mardi Gras (acoustic demo)
3 Let Me Live in Your City (work-in-progress)
4 Learn How to Fall
5 The Boxer
6 Bridge Over Troubled Water
7 American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
8 A Church Is Burning
9 Bernadette
10 Born At the Right Time
11 Cecilia
12 Jonah
13 Killer Wants to Go to College
14 Killer Wants to Go to College II
15 Leaves That Are Green
16 Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean
17 One-Trick Pony
18 Patterns
19 Proof
20 Quiet
21 That's Me
22 That's Where I Belong (Live)
23 Trailways Bus
24 Virgil
25 Dazzling Blue
26 Rewrite
27 The Afterlife
28 Amulet
29 Love and Hard Times
30 Thelma (outtake)
31 Old (Live)
32 The Story of "Graceland"
33 Beautiful
34 Another Galaxy
35 All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
36 All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints - Early Version
37 You're the One
38 The Teacher
39 The Side of a Hill
40 The Late Great Johnny Ace (original acoustic demo)
41 Stranded In a Limousine
42 Silent Eyes
43 Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (original acoustic demo)
44 Quality
45 Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
46 Outrageous
47 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (demo)
48 Look at That
49 I Do It for Your Love
50 I Am a Rock
51 Have a Good Time
52 Everything About It Is a Love Song
53 Darling Lorraine
54 Can I Forgive Him (original demo)
55 Hurricane Eye (Live)
56 Born at the Right Time (original acoustic demo)
57 The Coast (Work-In-Progress)
58 Spirit Voices (Work-In-Progress)
59 Train in the Distance (original acoustic demo)
60 Crazy Love, Volume II
61 That Was Your Mother
62 Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Version)
63 Shoplifting Clothes (unreleased)
64 Love & Blessings
65 A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
66 Ace In the Hole
67 Satin Summer Nights
68 Time Is an Ocean
69 A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)
70 Allergies
71 Hearts and Bones
72 Song About the Moon
73 Think Too Much (b)
74 Spiral Highway
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