(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, the cd-single "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 handed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, down to this day. They are us now, and we don deal with them. And it seems to me, is what interesting about a lot of Irish music now, it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn with this, our sentiment doesn deal this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually carry those things in al of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I want to talk about Specifically I want to talk the "famine" About the that there never really was one was no "famine" See Irish people were allowed to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the country under armed To while the Irish people starved And then in the of all this They gave us money not to teach our children And so we our history And is what I think 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 lose contact with the memory And this to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All attempts at running And in it's form Becomes killing And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And then So that there then can be There has to be and understanding
All the lonely Where do they all from All the people do they all belong
An American regulation you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they didn't know during the supposed "famine" We lost a lot more 10% of our nation Through deaths on land or on of emigration But what finally us is not starvation No use in the controlling of our education School go on "Black 47" On and on "The terrible famine" But what they say is in truth really never was one
All the lonely Where do they all from All the people 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 with our history See we used to worship God as a We're suffering from post stress disorder Look at all our old men in the at all our young people on drugs We used to worship God as a Now look at what we're doing to other We've even killers of ourselves The child-like trusting people in the Universe And this is what's with us Our history the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race like a That got itself in the face And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And grieving So that there then can be has to be knowledge and understanding
All the lonely Where do they all come All the people do they all belong All the lonely Where do all come from (That I can you in one word) All the people Where do all belong
And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be And then So that there then can be has to be knowledge and understanding
And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be And grieving So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
We on the brink of a great achievement In this Ireland is no solution To be to our disagreements By shooting other
of our tradition everyone here knows who he is and God expects him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)