(O'Connor, Clayton, Simenon, Reynolds)
[The extended version of "Famine", in 1995, from the cd-single "Famine"]
is more in us than we know about. The famine, which happened 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. are within us now, and we don with them. And it seems 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 of emotion, that we have no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we it. Our literature ....... doesn deal with this, our doesn deal with 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 to talk about Ireland Specifically I want to about the "famine" the fact that there never really was one was no "famine" See Irish people were allowed to eat potatoes All of the food, meat, fish, vegetables, were shipped out of the country under guard To England while the Irish starved And then in the middle of all They gave us not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our And this is I think is still hurting me
You see we're like a child been battered Has to drive out of it's head because it's frightened feels all the painful feelings But they lose with the memory And this leads to self-destruction Alcoholism, addiction All desperate at running And in it's worst Becomes actual And if there ever is gonna be There has to be And then So that there can be forgiving has to be knowledge and understanding
All the people Where do they all from All the people do they all belong
An American army Says you mustn't more than ten percent of a nation 'Cos to do so permanent "psychological damage" It's not permanent but didn't know that during the supposed "famine" We lost a lot 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 "The terrible famine" But what don't say is in truth There really was one
All the people Where do they all from All the people where do all belong
So take a look can we The highest of child abuse in the EEC And we say a Christian country But we've lost 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 at all our young people on drugs We used to God as a mother Now look at what doing to each other even made killers of ourselves The most child-like trusting in the Universe And this is what's with us Our books the parent figures lied to us I see the As a race a child That got itself in the face And if ever is gonna be healing There has to be And then So that there then can be There has to be and understanding
All the lonely Where do they all come All the people do they all belong All the people Where do all come from (That I can you in one word) All the lonely Where do they all
And if there ever is be healing There has to be And then So that there can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
And if there ever is gonna be has to be remembering And then So there then can be forgiving There has to be and understanding
We stand on the brink of a great In this there is no solution To be found to our By shooting each
of our tradition everyone here knows who he is and what God him to do
Forgiveness, Yes And
Equate, be Yes And
(repeat the several times)