(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, from the "Famine"]
There is more in us than we about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. Things that happen than were handed on father to son, from mother to daughter, down to day. They are within us now, and we don deal them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting about a lot of music now, that it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, we have no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn with this, our doesn 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 talk about Specifically I want to 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 out of the country under armed guard To while the Irish people starved And in the middle of all this They gave us money not to teach our children And so we our history And this is I think is still hurting me
You see we're like a child that's been Has to drive itself out of it's because it's frightened Still feels all the feelings But they lose contact with the And this leads to massive Alcoholism, addiction All desperate attempts at And in it's form actual killing And if ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And grieving So there then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the lonely Where do they all from All the lonely Where do they all
An American regulation Says you mustn't kill more than ten of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they know that Anyway during the "famine" We a lot more than 10% of our nation deaths on land or on ships 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 what don't say is in truth There really was one
All the people Where do they all from All the people where do they all
So let's a look can we The highest statistics of abuse in the EEC And we say a Christian country But lost contact with our history See we used to worship God as a We're suffering from traumatic stress disorder at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our people on drugs We used to God as a mother Now at what we're doing to each other We've even made of ourselves The child-like trusting people in the Universe And this is what's with us Our history books the figures lied to us I see the As a like a child That got itself in the face And if there is gonna be healing There has to be And then So that there can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the people do they all come from All the lonely Where do they all All the lonely do they all come from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do all belong
And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So there then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And then So there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the brink of a achievement In this there is no solution 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)