OK, 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 vegetables

Were shipped out of the country under armed guard

To England while the Irish people starved

And then on 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



See we're like a child that's been battered

Has to drive itself out of it's 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 it's 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



An American army regulation

Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation

'Cos 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 was not starvation

but it's use in the controlling of our education

School 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



(Excuse me)

All the lonely people