You can ask for sitting in a pew under that pottery painted glass Search for it in shadows hidden deep in your checkered past I'll feel sometimes like you're looking for a ghost But then you see it the eyes of the ones that love you most Forgiveness, everybody needs it; forgiveness, give it and receive it Sometimes the toughest thing you can give yourself; forgiveness I don't think it's ever too late to learn to sing a different song Pick up those tools you left out and put 'em back where they belong I can't handle yet what hurts me the most But standing here saying this to you tonight means that I'm getting close to Forgiveness, everybody needs it; forgiveness, give it and receive it I'm learning that's what love is all about; forgiveness In my father's house I learned that lost time is just a sin Each wrong I leave that I don't right might haunt me till the end We worked so hard at the perfect life, we forgot to live And I'm sorry that what you needed most, I didn't know how to give Forgiveness, everybody needs it; forgiveness, give it and receive it It's as easy as I'm sorry from the lips of someone else And the toughest thing you can ever give yourself; forgiveness