(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, the cd-single "Famine"]
There is more in us than we know about. The famine, happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. 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 with them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting about a lot of Irish music now, that it is the for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no other expression for it because we deny it, we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment doesn deal with this. But music, it in the music, it to me. The culture can actually carry 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 want to talk 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 country armed guard To England the Irish people starved And then in the of all this They us money not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our And is what I think is still hurting me
You see we're like a child that's battered Has to drive itself out of it's head because frightened feels all the painful feelings But they lose contact with the And this leads to self-destruction Alcoholism, drug All desperate at running And in it's worst Becomes actual And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And grieving So that there can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the lonely do they all come from All the lonely do they all belong
An army regulation Says you mustn't kill more ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" not permanent but they didn't know that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot more 10% of our nation Through deaths on or on ships of emigration But what finally 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 what they don't say is in There never was one
All the lonely Where do they all come All the lonely 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 country But we've lost contact our history See we used to God as a mother suffering from post traumatic stress disorder Look at all our old men in the Look at all our people on drugs We used to God as a mother Now look at what we're doing to other We've even made of ourselves The most trusting people in the Universe And this is wrong with us Our history books the figures lied to us I see the As a race like a That got itself in the face 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 people Where do they all come 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 do they all belong
And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And grieving So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And then So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the brink of a achievement In this Ireland there is no To be found to our By shooting each
Because of our tradition here knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the several times)