(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended of "Famine", released in 1995, from 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 than were handed on from father to son, from to daughter, down to this day. They are within us now, and we don deal them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting about a lot of Irish now, that 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 those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I want to about Ireland Specifically I to talk about the "famine" About the fact that there 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 under guard To England while the Irish starved And then in the of all this gave us money not to teach our children Irish And so we our history And this is what I is still hurting me
You see we're like a child that's battered Has to itself out of it's head because it's frightened feels all the painful feelings But they contact with the memory And this to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate at running And in worst form actual killing And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the people 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 permanent "psychological damage" not permanent but they didn't know that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot more than 10% of our Through 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 they don't say is in truth There 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 statistics of child abuse in the EEC And we say we're a Christian But we've lost contact with our See we used to worship God as a We're suffering from traumatic stress disorder Look at all our old men in the Look at all our young people on We used to God as a mother Now at what we're doing to each other even made killers of ourselves The most child-like people in the Universe And is what's wrong with us Our history the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race like a That got smashed in the face And if there is gonna be healing There has to be 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 Where do all belong
And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And grieving So there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
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
We stand on the brink of a great In this Ireland is no solution To be to our disagreements By each 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)