(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The version 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 lifetimes 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 with them. And it seems to me, this is what interesting about a lot of Irish music now, it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, we have no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we it. Our literature ....... doesn 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 people were only allowed to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the country under armed To England while the Irish people And then in the of all this They gave us money not to teach our children And so we lost our And this is what I think is still me
You see we're like a that's been battered Has to drive itself out of head because it's frightened Still feels all the painful But they lose contact the memory And leads to massive self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All attempts at running And in it's form 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 people do they all come from All the people Where do they all
An American army Says you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not but they didn't know that Anyway during the "famine" We a lot more than 10% of our nation Through deaths on or on ships of emigration But finally broke us is not starvation No it's use in the of our education 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 lonely Where do they all come All the lonely where do all belong
So take a look can we The highest statistics of abuse in the EEC And we say we're a Christian But we've lost contact with our See we used to God as a mother We're suffering from post stress disorder Look at all our old men in the Look at all our young on drugs We to worship God as a mother Now look at we're doing to each other even made killers of ourselves The most trusting people in the Universe And is what's wrong with us Our history the parent figures lied to us I see the As a like a child got itself 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 and understanding
All the people Where do they all come All the lonely Where do they all All the lonely Where do they all come (That I can you in one word) All the people Where do they all
And if there is gonna be healing There has to be And then So that then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
And if there is gonna be healing has to be remembering And then So there then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
We stand on the of a great achievement In this there is no solution To be to our disagreements By each other
Because of our tradition here knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the several times)