(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended of "Famine", released in 1995, from 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 were handed on father to son, from mother to daughter, down to this day. are within us now, and we don deal with them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting a lot of Irish music now, that it is the carrier for kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment doesn with this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually carry those things in al kinds of 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 people were only allowed to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, shipped out of the country under armed guard To England while the people starved And in the middle of all this gave us money not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our And this is what I 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 they lose contact the memory And this leads to massive Alcoholism, drug All desperate attempts at And in it's worst actual killing 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
All the lonely do they all come from All the people Where do they all
An American regulation Says you mustn't kill than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not permanent but didn't know that Anyway the supposed "famine" We a lot more than 10% of our nation Through deaths on land or on of emigration But finally broke us is not starvation No it's use in the controlling of our go on about "Black 47" On and on about "The famine" But what don't say is in truth There really was one
All the lonely Where do they all from All the lonely do they all belong
So let's a look can we The highest statistics of child in the EEC And we say a Christian country But we've lost contact our history See we to worship God as a mother We're suffering from post stress disorder at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our people on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now look at what we're doing to each We've even made killers of The most child-like trusting in the Universe And this is what's wrong us Our books 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 then So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
All the people Where do all come from All the people Where do all belong All the lonely do they all come from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do they all
And if there ever is be healing There has to be And grieving So that there then can be There has to be and understanding
And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the of a great achievement In this Ireland there is no To be to our disagreements By each other
Because of our tradition everyone here who he is and God expects him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)