(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended of "Famine", released in 1995, from the cd-single "Famine"]
There is more in us 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 day. They are within us now, and we don deal them. And it seems to me, this is what 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 ....... doesn deal with this, our doesn deal with this. But music, it in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually carry those in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in and in music.
Okay, I to talk about Ireland Specifically I want to talk the "famine" the fact that there 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 guard To England the Irish people starved And then in the of all this They gave us not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our And this is what I think is still me
You see like a child that's been battered Has to drive itself out of it's because it's frightened Still feels all the feelings But they lose contact with the And this leads to self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate attempts at And in worst form Becomes actual And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
All the people Where do they all come All the lonely Where do they all
An army regulation Says you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a 'Cos to do so causes "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they didn't that during the supposed "famine" We lost a lot more 10% of our nation Through on land or on ships of emigration 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 what don't say is in truth There really was one
All the people Where do they all from All the lonely where do all belong
So let's a look can we The statistics of child abuse 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 young people on We used to God as a mother Now look at what we're to each other We've made killers of ourselves The most child-like people in the Universe And is what's wrong with us Our history books the parent lied to us I see the As a like a child That got itself in the face And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And grieving So that there can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and
All the lonely do they all come from All the lonely do they all belong 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 gonna be has to be remembering And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
And if there ever is be healing has to be remembering And grieving So that there then can be There has to be and understanding
We on the brink of a great achievement In this there is no solution To be found to our By each 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)