(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 happened 150 ago. It three lifetimes at most. that happen than were handed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, to this day. They are within us now, and we don deal with them. And it to me, this is what interesting about a lot of music 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, we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our doesn deal with this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The can actually carry those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I want to talk about Specifically I want to talk the "famine" About the fact that there really was one was no "famine" See Irish people only allowed to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the country under guard To while the Irish 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 think is still me
You see we're like a child that's been Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's Still feels all the feelings But they lose contact with the And this to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate at running And in it's worst Becomes killing And if ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely Where do they all come All the lonely do they 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 they didn't that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot more than 10% of our Through deaths on land or on of emigration But finally broke us is not starvation No it's use in the of our education go on about "Black 47" On and on "The terrible famine" But what they don't say is in There really was one
All the people Where do they all come All the people do they all belong
So let's take a 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 at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our young people on We to worship God as a mother Now look at what we're doing to each even made killers of ourselves The most child-like trusting people in the And this is what's with us Our books the parent figures lied to us I see the As a like a child That got smashed in the face And if ever is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely Where do they all come All the lonely Where do all belong All the lonely do they all come from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely do they all belong
And if there ever is 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 be healing There has to be And grieving So that there then can be There has to be knowledge and
We stand on the brink of a great In this Ireland there is no To be found to our 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 above times)