(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended 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 at most. Things that happen than were handed on from father to son, mother to daughter, down to this day. They are within us now, and we don deal with them. And it seems to me, this is interesting about a lot of Irish now, that it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no other for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... deal with this, our sentiment doesn 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 talk Ireland Specifically I want to about the "famine" the fact that there never really was one was no "famine" See Irish people were only allowed to eat 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 middle of all They gave us not to teach our children Irish And so we our history And this is I think is still hurting me
You see we're like a child been battered Has to drive itself out of head because it's frightened feels all the painful feelings But they contact with the memory And leads to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, drug All attempts 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 has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do they all come All the people Where do all belong
An army regulation you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not permanent but didn't know that during the supposed "famine" We lost a lot more than 10% of our Through deaths on or on ships of emigration But what finally broke us is not No it's use in the controlling of our go on about "Black 47" On and on about "The famine" But what they say is in truth There never was one
All the people Where do all come from All the people where do they all
So let's take a can we The highest statistics of child in the EEC And we say we're a Christian But lost contact with our history See we used to worship God as a suffering from post traumatic stress disorder 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 of ourselves 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 like a child That got itself smashed in the And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And then So there then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the lonely Where do all come from All the people Where do they all All the lonely Where do all come from (That I can you in one word) All the people Where do they all
And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And then So there then 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 There has to be knowledge and
We on the brink of a great achievement In Ireland there is no solution To be found to our By shooting other
Because of our everyone here knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)