(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The version of "Famine", released in 1995, from the cd-single "Famine"]
is more in us than we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. that happen than were handed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, down to this day. are within us now, and we don with them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting about a lot of Irish music now, that it is the 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 with this, our sentiment deal with 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 about Ireland 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 armed guard To England while the Irish people And then in the middle of all They gave us not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our And this is what I is still hurting me
You see we're a child that's been battered Has to drive itself out of head because it's frightened feels all the painful feelings But they lose with the memory And this leads to massive Alcoholism, addiction All desperate at running And in it's worst actual killing And if there is gonna be healing There has to be And then So that there then can be There has to be and understanding
All the lonely Where do all come from All the lonely Where do all belong
An army 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 know that during 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 of our education School go on "Black 47" On and on about "The 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 they all
So let's 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 post traumatic stress disorder Look at all our old men in the at all our young people on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now look at what we're to each other We've even made killers of The most child-like people in the Universe And this is what's wrong us Our history books the parent lied to us I see the As a race a child That got itself in the face And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be And grieving So there then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the people Where do they all from All the people do they all belong All the people Where do they all come (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do all belong
And if ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And grieving So that there can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
And if there ever is be healing There has to be And then So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
We on the brink of a great achievement In this there is no solution To be to our disagreements By shooting other
Because of our tradition everyone here who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the several times)