Direct link:

BB code:

Embed:
Sinead O'connor

Okay, I want to talk about Ireland<br /> Specifically I want to talk about the &#39;Famine&#39;<br /> About the fact that there never really was one<br /> There was no &#39;Famine&#39;<br /> See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes<br /> All of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables<br /> Were shipped out of the country under armed guard<br /> To England while the Irish people starved<br /> And then on the middle of all this<br /> They gave us money not to teach our children Irish<br /> And so we lost our history<br /> And this is what I think is still hurting me<br /> See, we&#39;re like a child that&#39;s been battered<br /> Has to drive itself out of it&#39;s head because it&#39;s frightened<br /> Still feels all the painful feelings<br /> But they lose contact with the memory<br /> And this leads to massive self-destruction<br /> Alcoholism, drug addiction<br /> All desperate attempts at running<br /> And in it&#39;s worst form becomes actual killing<br /> And if there ever is gonna be healing<br /> There has to be remembering and then grieving<br /> So that there then can be forgiving<br /> There has to be knowledge and understanding<br /> All the lonely people<br /> Where do they all come from?<br /> An American army regulation<br /> Says you mustn&#39;t kill more than ten percent of a nation<br /> &#39;Cause to do so causes permanent &#39;psychological damage&#39;<br /> It&#39;s not permanent but they didn&#39;t know that<br /> Anyway, during the supposed &#39;Famine<br /> We lost a lot more than ten percent of our nation<br /> Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration<br /> But what finally broke us was not starvation<br /> But it&#39;s use in the controlling of our education<br /> School go on about &#39;Black &#39;47&#39;<br /> On and on about &#39;The Terrible Famine&#39;<br /> But what they don&#39;t say is in truth<br /> There really never was one<br /> (Excuse me)<br /> All the lonely people<br /> <br /> (I&#39;m sorry, excuse me)<br /> Where do they all come from<br /> (That I can tell you in one word)<br /> All the lonely people<br /> Where do they all belong?<br /> So let&#39;s take a look, shall we?<br /> The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC<br /> And we say we&#39;re a Christian country<br /> But we&#39;ve lost contact with our history<br /> See we used to worship God as a mother<br /> We&#39;re suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder<br /> Look at all our old men in the pubs<br /> Look at all our young people on drugs<br /> We used to worship God as a mother<br /> Now look at what we&#39;re doing to each other<br /> We&#39;ve even made killers of ourselves<br /> The most child-like trusting people in the Universe<br /> And this is what&#39;s wrong with us<br /> Our history books the parent figures lied to us<br /> I see the Irish as a race like a child<br /> That got itself bashed in the face<br /> And if there ever is gonna be healing<br /> There has to be remembering and then grieving<br /> So that there, then can be forgiving<br /> There has to be knowledge and understanding<br /> All the lonely people?<br /> Where do they all come from<br /> All the lonely people<br /> Where do they all come from?<br /> We stand on the brink of a great achievement<br /> In this Ireland there is no solution to be found<br /> To our disagreements by shooting each other<br /> There is no real invader here<br /> We are all Irish in all our different kinds of ways<br /> We must not, now or ever in the future<br /> Show anything to each other<br /> Except tolerance, forbearance and neighborly love<br /> Because of our tradition<br /> Everyone here knows how he is<br /> And what God expects him to doLyrics provided by TANCODEhttps://damnlyrics.com/" readonly=""/>