(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, the cd-single "Famine"]
There is more in us we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. Things that happen 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 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 it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment doesn deal this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually carry those in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I want to talk about Specifically I to talk about 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 England while the Irish people And then in the of all this gave us money not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our And this is I think is still hurting me
You see we're a child that's been battered Has to drive out of it's head because it's frightened feels all the painful feelings But they lose with the memory And this to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, drug All desperate attempts at And in it's worst Becomes actual And if ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And grieving So that there can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the people Where do they all come All the lonely do they all belong
An army regulation Says you mustn't kill than ten percent of a nation to do so causes permanent "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they know that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot more than 10% of our 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 about "The famine" But what don't say is in truth really never was one
All the lonely Where do they all come All the people do they all belong
So take a look can we The highest of child abuse in the EEC And we say we're a country But we've contact with our history See we to worship God as a mother We're suffering from post traumatic stress Look at all our old men in the Look at all our young on drugs We used to God as a mother Now look at what we're to each other We've even made killers of The child-like trusting people in the Universe And this is what's wrong us Our history the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race like a got itself smashed in the face And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And grieving So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely Where do they all come All the lonely Where do they all All the people Where do they all come (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do they all
And if ever 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 then So there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the brink of a great In Ireland there is no solution To be to our disagreements By shooting other
Because of our everyone here knows who he is and God expects him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the several times)