(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", released in 1995, the cd-single "Famine"]
There is more in us than we about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It three lifetimes at most. Things that happen 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 carrier for this of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... 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 want to talk Ireland Specifically I want to talk the "famine" About the fact that 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 in the middle of all this gave us money not to teach our children Irish And so we our history And this is what I think is hurting me
You see we're like a that's been battered Has to drive itself out of it's head it's frightened Still feels all the painful But they lose with the memory And leads to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate at running And in it's worst actual killing And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And grieving So there then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the people Where do all come from All the lonely Where do they all
An American regulation Says you mustn't kill than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they know that Anyway during the "famine" We lost a lot than 10% of our nation Through deaths on land or on ships of But what finally broke us is not No it's use in the controlling of our 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 do they all come from All the people do they all belong
So let's a look can we The highest statistics of child in the EEC And we say a Christian country But we've lost contact with our 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 used to God as a mother Now look at what we're doing to each We've even made killers of The most child-like people in the Universe And is what's wrong with us Our books the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race like a That got itself in the face And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And grieving So that then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely Where do they all from All the people Where do all belong All the people Where do they all from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do all belong
And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And then So that there can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And then So that then can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
We stand on the of a great achievement In this Ireland is no solution To be to our disagreements By shooting each
Because of our tradition everyone knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the above times)