Please Forgive Us

Текст песни 10000 Maniacs - Please Forgive Us <br/> "Mercy, mercy," why didn't we hear it? "Mercy, mercy," why did we read<br />it<br />buried on the last page of our morning papers? The plan was drafted,<br />drafted in secret. Gunboats met the red tide, driven to the rum trade<br />for the army that they created. But the bullets were bought by us, it<br />was<br />dollars that paid them.<br />Please forgive us, we don't know what was done in our name. There'll<br />( )<br />be<br />more trials like this in mercenary heydays. When they're so apt to<br />wrap<br />themselves up in the stripes and stars and find that they are able to<br />сall<br />themselves heroes and to justify murder by their fighters for freedom.<br />Please forgive us, we don't know what was done. Please forgive us, we<br />didn't know. Could you ever forgive us? I don't know how you could. I<br />know<br />this is no consolation. Please forgive us, we didn't know. Could you<br />ever<br />believe that we didn't know? Please forgive us, we didn't know. I<br />wouldn't<br />blame you if you never could, and you never will.