(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended of "Famine", released in 1995, from the cd-single "Famine"]
is more in us than we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It lifetimes at most. Things that happen than were handed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, down to this day. are within us now, and we don deal with them. And it seems to me, is what interesting about a lot of Irish music now, that it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for kind of emotion, that we have no other for it because politically we it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment deal with this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I to talk about Ireland I want to talk about the "famine" About the fact that there really was one was no "famine" See Irish people were only to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the under armed guard To England while the Irish starved And then in the of all this They gave us money not to our children Irish And so we lost our And this is I think is still hurting me
You see like a child that's been battered Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's Still feels all the feelings But they lose contact with the And this leads to massive Alcoholism, drug All desperate at running And in it's worst Becomes killing And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do they all from All the lonely Where do they all
An American regulation you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not but they didn't know that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot than 10% of our nation Through deaths on land or on of emigration But what broke us is not starvation No it's use in the controlling of our School go on "Black 47" On and on "The terrible famine" But what they don't say is in really never was one
All the lonely Where do all come from All the lonely where do they all
So let's a look can we The highest of child abuse in the EEC And we say a Christian country But we've lost contact our history See we to worship God as a mother We're suffering from post traumatic stress Look at all our old men in the Look at all our young people on We used to God as a mother Now look at what we're doing to other We've even killers of ourselves The child-like trusting people in the Universe And this is wrong with us Our books the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race a child That got smashed in the face And if ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely Where do all come from All the people Where do all belong All the people Where do all come from (That I can you in one word) All the people Where do they all
And if there ever is be healing There has to be And then So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be And then So there then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
We on the brink of a great achievement In this Ireland is no solution To be found to our By shooting each
of our tradition everyone here knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)