Primordial The Coffin Ships Lyrics:
Young hearts born with grief
Shall pay the penalty of truth
A season of stolen youth
Shall teach old hearts to break

It feels like I've been here before
Here to where the animals lay down to die
So we stood alone on a distant store
Our broken spirits in rags and tatters

Nerve and muscle, heart and brains
Lost to Ireland, lost in vain
Pause and you can almost hear
The sounds echo down through the ages
The creak of the burial cart
Here in humiliation and sorrow
Not mixed with indignation
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One is driven to exclaim
Oh god, that bread should be so dear
And human flesh so cheap 1

Young hearts are born with such grief
We have paid the penalty of truth
A season of our stolen youth
Shall teach our hearts to break

["Between the years 1845 and 1849 a famine
ravaged Ireland and over 3 million people were lost to
a combination of starvation and emigration I said once
before the history of my land is a litany of tragedy
and blood, these four years represent possibly the
greatest tragedy the country has endured. It still
hangs over Ireland and set the tone for Irish people
to leave Ireland shores to the present day. The coffin
ships themselves were what the ships that set sail for
America in search of a new and better life were
called. It's with this song we honour the memory of
this great tragedy and those poor souls who lost their lives."]
Lyrics: The Coffin Ships, Primordial [end]