(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, the cd-single "Famine"]
is more in us than we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. Things that happen were handed on from father to son, mother to daughter, down to this day. They are within us now, and we don deal with them. And it seems to me, this is what about a lot of Irish music now, that it is the carrier for this of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no other expression for it because we deny it, intellectually we 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 carry those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I want to about Ireland Specifically I want to about the "famine" About the fact that there never was one was no "famine" See Irish people were only allowed to eat All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, shipped out of the country under armed guard To England while the Irish people And then in the of all this They us money not to teach our children Irish And so we our history And is what 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 frightened feels all the painful feelings But they lose contact the memory And this to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, drug All desperate at running And in it's worst Becomes killing And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be And grieving So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do all come from All the lonely Where do they all
An American regulation Says you mustn't kill than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not permanent but didn't know that during the supposed "famine" We lost a lot than 10% of our nation Through deaths on land or on of emigration But what finally broke us is not No it's use in the controlling of our School go on "Black 47" On and on "The terrible famine" But they don't say is in truth really never was one
All the people Where do they all from All the people do they all belong
So let's take a can we The highest of child abuse in the EEC And we say we're a Christian But we've contact with our history See we used to worship God as a We're from post traumatic stress disorder at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our young on drugs We used to God as a mother Now look at what we're to each other We've made killers of ourselves The most child-like people in the Universe And this is what's wrong us Our history the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race like a That got itself smashed in the And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And grieving So that then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the lonely do they all come from All the lonely Where do all belong All the lonely Where do they all from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do they all
And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And grieving So that then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the brink of a achievement In Ireland there is no solution To be found to our By shooting 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 several times)