(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", in 1995, from the cd-single "Famine"]
There is more in us we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. Things that happen than 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, this is what interesting a lot of music now, that it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no expression for it because politically we it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment doesn deal this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The culture can carry those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I to talk about Ireland Specifically I to talk about the "famine" About the that there never really was one was no "famine" See people were only allowed 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 in the middle of all this They gave us money not to teach our children And so we lost our And this is what I is still hurting me
You see like a child that's been battered Has to drive itself out of it's head it's frightened Still feels all the painful But they lose contact the memory And leads to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, drug All desperate attempts at And in worst form Becomes actual And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And grieving So that there can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the people Where do all come from All the people do they all belong
An American army Says you kill more than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not but they didn't know that Anyway the supposed "famine" We lost a lot more 10% of our nation Through on land or on ships of emigration But what finally us is not starvation No it's use in the controlling of our go on about "Black 47" On and on about "The famine" But what they say is in truth really never was one
All the people Where do they all from All the lonely where do they all
So let's take a can we The highest of child abuse in the EEC And we say we're a country But we've lost contact with our See we used to worship God as a We're suffering from post stress disorder Look at all our old men in the at all our young people on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now at what we're doing to each other We've even killers of ourselves The most trusting people in the Universe And this is wrong with us Our history the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race like a That got smashed in the face And if there is gonna be healing There has to be And grieving So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely Where do they all from All the people Where do all belong All the people do they all come from (That I can you in one word) All the people Where do they all
And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And grieving So there then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And then So that there then can be has to be knowledge and understanding
We stand on the brink of a achievement In this there is no solution To be to our disagreements By each other
Because of our tradition everyone knows who he is and God expects him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)