Luka Bloom - Forgiveness lyrics

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 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 a**ist my fellow countrymen There is nothing only emptiness inside 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 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 pa** One word in the morning light Brings freedom home at last 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...