By Tennant/Lowe
Date: 24 March 2000

Can You Forgive Her?

Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact

You're in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
You're in love, and it feels like pain
Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims

      So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
      If she wants you to?
      Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
      What she demands of you?

You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget

    She's made you some kind of laughing stock
    Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
    She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
    Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead

So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!

Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew

  It was love, and now you can't pretend
  You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
  It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
  But she's not prepared to share you with the memory

     So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
     If she begs you to?
     Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
     What she demands of you?
     Or do you want revenge?
     But that's childish, so childish!
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