Forgiveness - Luka Bloom

作词：Luka Bloom

作曲：Luka Bloom

Walking wounded children lined the roads about the town

Aging little faces full of need

Who never should have suffered

from this hunger

There's a better world

to go to

I believed

Before our journey to Canada

My love and I were married in the town

One day of freedom from the anguish

We sang and danced with friends from all around

A stor mo chroi

I'll always love you

A stor mo chroi

I'll always love you

On an overcrowded ship we crossed the ocean

Many found their graveyard in that sea

Those who set their dreams on a life in Canada

Surrendered

to the fate that was to be

Finally my true love's heart

was broken

In a fever shed in Canada she died

Though I will assist my fellow countrymen

There is nothing only emptiness inside

A stor mo chroi

I'll always love you

A stor mo chroi

I'll always love you

All my fear of dying dissipated

Now I'm simply waiting for the end

Before I'm laid to rest in Canada

I'll bring some comfort to my Irish friends

Talk to them of better days behind us

Before a brute for power put us down

I'll sing until the reaper comes to take me

To the love that lies waiting in the ground

A stor mo chroi

I'll always love you

A stor mo chroi

I'll always love you

I'll always love you

I'll always love you

I open up my eyes

To the sunlight shining new

And in the dream that takes me back

A single word rings through

My memories awaken

To the horrors come to pass

One word

in the morning light

Brings freedom home at last

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

For the ancient wounds still hurting

For the wrongs I've never known

For all the children left to die

Near fields where corn was grown

Like the ones who braved the ocean

In the fever sheds to burn

Let all the hatred

leave these shores now

Never to return

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Forgiveness