OK, I want to talk about Ireland 好吧，我想谈谈爱尔兰

Specifically I want to talk about the "famine" 具体来说，我想谈谈“饥荒”

About the fact that there never really was one 有关的事实，有没有真正为1

There was no "famine" 有没有“饥荒”

See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes 见爱尔兰人只能吃土豆

All of the other food 所有的其他食物

Meat fish vegetables 肉鱼蔬菜

Were shipped out of the country under armed guard 正在卫兵运出该国

To England while the Irish people starved 英格兰而爱尔兰人饿死

And then on the middle of all this 然后在这一切中间

They gave us money not to teach our children Irish 他们给我们的钱不是教我们的孩子爱尔兰

And so we lost our history 因此，我们失去了我们的历史

And this is what I think is still hurting me 这就是我的想法还是伤害了我

   

See we're like a child that's been battered 看到我们就像一个已经焦头烂额孩子

Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's frightened 有驾驶本身出它的头，因为它是受惊吓

Still feels all the painful feelings 还是觉得所有的痛苦感受

But they lose contact with the memory 但他们失去了与内存接触

   

And this leads to massive self-destruction 这导致大量的自毁

alcoholism, drug adiction 酗酒，吸毒adiction

All desperate attempts at running 所有拼命跑路

And in it's worst form 而在它的最糟糕的形式

Becomes actual killing 成为实际的杀戮

   

And if there ever is gonna be healing 如果有曾经是要去愈合

There has to be remembering 还有，必须记住的

And then grieving 然后悲伤

So that there then can be forgiving 因此，有话可以原谅

There has to be knowledge and understanding 必须有知识和理解

   

All the lonely people 所有寂寞的人

where do they all come from 在哪里他们都来自

   

An American army regulation 一位美国军规

Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation 说，你不能杀了一个民族的超过10％

'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage" 因为这样做会导致永久性的“心理伤害”

It's not permanent but they didn't know that 这不是永久性的，但他们不知道，

Anyway during the supposed "famine" 反正在所谓的“饥荒”

We lost a lot more than 10% of our nation 我们失去了我们国家的很多超过10％

Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration 通过在陆地上或船上移民死亡

But what finally broke us was not starvation 但终于打破我们不饥饿

but it's use in the controlling of our education 但它在我们的教育的控制使用

School go on about "Black 47" 学校继续对“黑47”

On and on about "The terrible famine" 论和关于“可怕的饥荒”

But what they don't say is in truth 但他们不说是真理

There really never was one 真的从来没有1

   

(Excuse me) （对不起/打扰一下）

All the lonely people 所有寂寞的人

(I'm sorry, excuse me) （对不起，原谅我）

Where do they all come from 他们在哪里都来自

(that I can tell you in one word) （我可以告诉你一个字）

All the lonely people 所有寂寞的人

where do they all belong 在哪里他们都属于

   

So let's take a look shall we 因此，让我们一起来看看我们应

The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC 虐待儿童，在欧共体的最高统计

And we say we're a Christian country 和我们说这是一个基督教国家

But we've lost contact with our history 但是，我们已经失去了我们的历史联系

See we used to worship God as a mother 见我们来敬拜神的母亲

We're sufferin from post traumatic stress disorder 我们从创伤后应激障碍在痛苦

Look at all our old men in the pubs 看看我们所有的老男人在酒吧

Look at all our young people on drugs 看看我们所有的年轻人对毒品

We used to worship God as a mother 我们用来敬拜神的母亲

Now look at what we're doing to each other 现在就来看看我们在做什么彼此

We've even made killers of ourselves 我们甚至做了自己的杀手

The most child-like trusting people in the Universe 最小孩子般信任的人在宇宙

And this is what's wrong with us 这是什么地方错了我们

Our history books the pareny figures lied to us 我们的历史书pareny数字向我们撒谎

   

I see the Irish 我看到爱尔兰

As a race like a child 至于像一个孩子比赛

That got itself basned in the face 这让自己的脸basned

   

And if there ever is gonna be healing 如果有曾经是要去愈合

There has to be remembering 还有，必须记住的

And then grieving 然后悲伤

So that there then can be forgiving 因此，有话可以原谅

There has to be knowledge and understanding 必须有知识和理解

   

All the lonely people 所有寂寞的人

Where do they all come from 他们在哪里都来自

All the lonely people 所有寂寞的人

Where do they all come from 他们在哪里都来自

   

We stand on the brink of a great achievement 我们站在一个伟大的成就的边缘

In this Ireland there is no solution 在这个爱尔兰有没有解决办法

to be found to our disagreements 被发现到我们的分歧

by shooting eachother 所拍摄的海誓山盟

   

There is no real invader here 这里没有真正的入侵者

We are all irish in all our 我们都是爱尔兰人在我们所有的

different kinds of ways 不同种方式

We must not, now or ever in the future, 我们绝不能现在或曾经在将来，

show anything to each other 显示任何东西给对方

exept tollerance, forbearance exept tollerance ，忍

and neighbourly love 和睦邻爱

   

because of our tradition everyone here 因为我们每个人的传统在这里

knows how he is and what God expects him to do. 知道自己是怎么了，什么神希望他做的事。