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 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 us
see we're like a child that's been battered
has to drive itself out of its head because it's frightened
still feels all the painful feelings
but they lost 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 going to be healing
there has to be remembering
and then grieving
so that there then can be forgiving
there has to be knowledge
and understanding
an american army regulation says
you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation
cuz to do so causes permanent psychological damage
it's not permanent but they didn't know that
anyway during this supposed famine
we lost a lot more than ten percent of our nation
through deaths on land and in ships of emigration
but what finally broke us
was not starvation
but its 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
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
see we used to worship god as a mother
we're suffering from post traumatic stress disorder
look at all our old men in the pubs
look at our young people on drugs
we used to worship god as a mother
now look at what we're doing to each other
we've even made killers of ourselves
the most childlike trusting people in the universe
and this is what's wrong with us
the history books our 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
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 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 us
see we're like a child that's been battered
has to drive itself out of its head because it's frightened
still feels all the painful feelings
but they lost 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 going to be healing
there has to be remembering
and then grieving
so that there then can be forgiving
there has to be knowledge
and understanding
an american army regulation says
you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation
cuz to do so causes permanent psychological damage
it's not permanent but they didn't know that
anyway during this supposed famine
we lost a lot more than ten percent of our nation
through deaths on land and in ships of emigration
but what finally broke us
was not starvation
but its 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
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
see we used to worship god as a mother
we're suffering from post traumatic stress disorder
look at all our old men in the pubs
look at our young people on drugs
we used to worship god as a mother
now look at what we're doing to each other
we've even made killers of ourselves
the most childlike trusting people in the universe
and this is what's wrong with us
the history books our 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