"Forgive Is To Know" lyrics

I've been working slowly, and time can help a song
The chords are set in stone, but the words I'm working on
Drove up to New England, listening in the car
Rolled the windows down and held the wind across my arms

A thing about forgiveness is that it takes a change
Where once you were a victim, you no longer feel the same
A thing about forgiveness is that it asks for change
Where once you felt a victim, now you don't see it that way

I won't recount the story, you know it breaks my heart
The ending, it was tragic, was the problem ever solved?
All of us were wishing we knew what to do
Was not enough compassion taught to us in school?

And just because you feel it, doesn't mean it's fair
Just because it hurt you, doesn't mean you're cleared
Of the obligation to know the harm you've done
All of us are guilty, none of us are innocent

To err is human
But to forgive is divine
Divine
Divine

Something I remember and guess I took to heart
Is that we don't grow wiser without seeing our part
Something I remembered that stuck with me, I guess
Is that the institutions don't reward the compassionate

To err is human
But to forgive is to learn
To learn
To learn
To learn
To learn

I have this hope that we could learn from our errors
And though the truth is still obscured
I think the truth could still be learned
I have this hope that we could change from what's occurred
And though the truth is still obscured
I think some truth could still be heard

I have this hope that we could learn from our errors
And though the truth is still obscured
I think the truth could still be learned
I have this hope that we could change from what's occurred
And though the truth is still obscured
I think some truth could still be heard