(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, from the "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 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 interesting a lot of Irish music now, that it is the carrier for kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment doesn deal with this. But music, it in the music, it to me. The can actually 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 I want to talk about the "famine" About the fact that 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 country under armed To England while the Irish people And in the middle of all this They gave us not to teach our children Irish And so we our history And is what I think is still hurting me
You see we're like a that's been battered Has to itself out of it's head because it's frightened Still all the painful feelings 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 ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And grieving So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do all come from All the people Where do they all
An American army you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they didn't that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot more than 10% of our Through deaths on or on ships of emigration But what broke us is not starvation No it's use in the of our education School go on "Black 47" On and on about "The famine" But they don't say is in truth There never was one
All the people do they all come from All the lonely where do they all
So let's a look can we The highest statistics of child in the EEC And we say we're a Christian But we've lost contact our history See we used to God as a mother We're suffering from post traumatic disorder at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our people on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now look at what we're to each other We've even killers of ourselves The most child-like trusting people in the And is what's wrong with us Our history books the parent figures 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 grieving So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do they all come All the lonely Where do all belong All the people Where do all come from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely do they all belong
And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So that there can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
And if there is gonna be healing There has to be And grieving So there then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
We stand on the of a great achievement In Ireland there is no solution To be found to our By shooting other
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)