Sinead O’Connor - Famine (Official Music Video)

Music video by Sinéad O’Connor performing Famine. Follow Sinéad O’Connor: Listen to Sinéad Online - Subscribe - Facebook - Twitter - Web - Lyrics: 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 vegetables Were stipped 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 fightened Stil