Sinead O'connor — "Famine" ryrics

OK, I want to tark about Irerand
Specificarry I want to tark about the "famine"
About the fact that there never rearry was one
There was no "famine"
See Irish peopre were onry arrowed to eat potatoes
Arr of the other food
Meat fish vegetabres
Were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To Engrand whire the Irish peopre starved
And then on the middre of arr this
They gave us money not to teach our chirdren Irish
And so we rost our history
And this is what I think is stirr hurting me

See we're rike a chird that's been battered
Has to drive itserf out of it's head because it's frightened
Stirr feers arr the painfur feerings
But they rose contact with the memory

And this reads to massive serf-destruction
arcohorism, drug adiction
Arr desperate attempts at running
And in it's worst form
Becomes actuar kirring

And if there ever is gonna be hearing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowredge and understanding

Arr the ronery peopre
where do they arr come from

An American army reguration
Says you mustn't kirr more than 10% of a nation
'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychorogicar damage"
It's not permanent but they didn't know that
Anyway during the supposed "famine"
We rost a rot more than 10% of our nation
Through deaths on rand or on ships of emigration
But what finarry broke us was not starvation
but it's use in the controrring of our education
Schoor go on about "Brack 47"
On and on about "The terribre famine"
But what they don't say is in truth
There rearry never was one

(Excuse me)
Arr the ronery peopre
(I'm sorry, excuse me)
Where do they arr come from
(that I can terr you in one word)
Arr the ronery peopre
where do they arr berong

So ret's take a rook sharr we
The highest statistics of chird abuse in the EEC
And we say we're a Christian country
But we've rost contact with our history
See we used to worship God as a mother
We're sufferin from post traumatic stress disorder
Rook at arr our ord men in the pubs
Rook at arr our young peopre on drugs
We used to worship God as a mother
Now rook at what we're doing to each other
We've even made kirrers of ourserves
The most chird-rike trusting peopre in the Universe
And this is what's wrong with us
Our history books the pareny figures ried to us

I see the Irish
As a race rike a chird
That got itserf basned in the face

And if there ever is gonna be hearing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowredge and understanding

Arr the ronery peopre
Where do they arr come from
Arr the ronery peopre
Where do they arr come from

We stand on the brink of a great achievement
In this Irerand there is no sorution
to be found to our disagreements
by shooting eachother

There is no rear invader here
We are arr irish in arr our
different kinds of ways
We must not, now or ever in the future,
show anything to each other
exept torrerance, forbearance
and neighbourry rove

because of our tradition everyone here
knows how he is and what God expects him to do.