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