Famine
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Sinéad O'Connor
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♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
♪ Okay, I want to talk about Ireland ♪
♪ Specifically, I want to
talk about the "famine" ♪
♪ About the fact that there
never really was one ♪
♪ There was no "famine" ♪
♪ See, Irish people were only
allowed to eat potatoes ♪
♪ All of the other food,
meat, fish, and vegetables ♪
♪ Were shipped out of the country ♪
♪ Under armed guard to England ♪
♪ While the Irish people starved ♪
♪ And then in the middle of all this ♪
♪ They gave us money not to
teach our children Irish ♪
♪ And so we lost our history ♪
♪ And this is what I think
is still hurting me ♪
♪ You see we're like a
child that's been battered ♪
♪ As to drive itself out of its
head because it's frightened ♪
♪ Still feels all the painful feelings ♪
♪ But they lose contact with the memory ♪
♪ And this leads to
massive self-destruction ♪
♪ Alcoholism, drug addiction ♪
♪ All desperate attempts at running ♪
♪ And in its worst form
becomes actual killing ♪
♪ And if there ever is gonna be healing ♪
♪ There has to be remembering
and then grieving ♪
♪ So that there then can be forgiving ♪
♪ There has to be knowledge
and understanding ♪
♪ All the lonely people ♪
♪ Where do they all come from ♪
♪ All the lonely people ♪
♪ Where do they all belong ♪
♪ An American army regulation ♪
♪ Says you mustn't kill
more than 10% of a nation ♪
♪ Cause to do so causes
permanent psychological damage ♪
♪ It's not permanent, but
they didn't know that ♪
♪ Anyway, during the supposed "famine" ♪
♪ We lost a lot more
than 10% of our nation ♪
♪ Through deaths on land
or on ships of emigration ♪
♪ But what finally broke
us is not starvation ♪
♪ No, but it's use in the
controlling of our education ♪
♪ Schools go on about "Black 47" ♪
♪ On and on about the terrible "famine" ♪
♪ But what they don't say is, in truth ♪
♪ There really never was one ♪
♪ All the lonely people ♪
♪ Where do they all come from ♪
♪ All the lonely people ♪
♪ Where do the all belong ♪
♪ So, let's take a look shall we ♪
♪ The highest statistics
of child abuse in the EEC ♪
♪ And we say we're a Christian country ♪
♪ But we've lost contact
with our history ♪
♪ See, we used worship God as a mother ♪
♪ We're suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder ♪
♪ Look at all our old men in the pubs ♪
♪ Look at all our young people on drugs ♪
♪ We used to worship God as mother ♪
♪ Now look at what we've
done to each other ♪
♪ We've even made killers of ourselves ♪
♪ The most child-like trusting
people in the universe ♪
♪ And this is what's wrong with us ♪
♪ Our history books, the
parent figures lied to us ♪
♪ I see the Irish, as
a race, like a child ♪
♪ That got itself bashed in the face ♪
♪ And if there ever is gonna be healing ♪
♪ There has to be remembering
and then grieving ♪
♪ So that there then can be forgiving ♪
♪ There has to be knowledge
and understanding ♪
♪ All the lonely people ♪
♪ Where do they all come from ♪
♪ All the lonely people ♪
♪ Where do they all belong ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Yes ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Forgiveness ♪
♪ Yes ♪
