(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, from the "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. They are us now, and we don deal them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting about 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 other for it because politically we deny it, we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our sentiment doesn deal with this. But music, it in the music, it 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 to talk about Ireland I want to talk about the "famine" About the that there never really was one was no "famine" See Irish were only allowed to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the country under armed To England while the people starved And then in the of all this They 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 been Has to drive itself out of head because it's frightened Still all the painful feelings But they lose contact the memory And this to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate attempts at And in it's form Becomes actual And if there ever is 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 all belong
An American army Says you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not but they didn't know that Anyway the supposed "famine" We a lot more than 10% of our nation Through deaths on or on ships 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 lonely Where do they all from All the lonely do they all belong
So let's take a 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 God as a mother We're from post traumatic stress disorder at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our young on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now at what we're doing to each other We've even made killers of The most child-like trusting people in the And this is what's wrong us Our history books the parent lied to us I see the As a race like a That got smashed in the face And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And grieving So that there can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do all come from All the lonely Where do all belong All the lonely 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 then So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And grieving So that there then can be has to be knowledge and understanding
We stand on the brink of a great In this Ireland there is no 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)