(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended of "Famine", released in 1995, from the cd-single "Famine"]
There is more in us than we know about. The famine, which 150 years ago. It three at most. Things 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 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 ....... deal with this, our sentiment doesn deal 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 I want to talk about the "famine" About the fact that never 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 armed To England the Irish 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 itself out of it's head because it's frightened feels all the painful feelings But they lose contact with the And this leads to self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate attempts at And in it's worst actual killing 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
All the people Where do all come from All the people Where do all belong
An American army Says you mustn't kill than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they didn't that during the supposed "famine" We a lot more than 10% of our nation deaths on land or on ships of emigration But what finally broke us is not No use in the controlling of our education go on about "Black 47" On and on "The terrible famine" But they don't say is in truth really never was one
All the people do they all come from All the lonely where do all belong
So let's take a can we The statistics of child abuse in the EEC And we say we're a country But we've contact with our history See we used to God as a mother suffering from post traumatic stress disorder Look at all our old men in the Look at all our people on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now at what we're doing to each other We've made killers of ourselves The most child-like trusting people in the And is what's wrong with us Our history books the parent lied to us I see the As a race like a That got itself in the face And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the lonely Where do they all come All the lonely Where do all belong All the people Where do they all from (That I can you in one word) All the people Where do all belong
And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be 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 there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the brink of a achievement In this Ireland there is no To be found to our By shooting other
of our tradition everyone here knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)