Troy 18th Century

Primordial – The Coffin Ships

a) Song lyrics

b) The higlited issue is the famine that ravaged Ireland for four years and the 3 million people that starved.

c) “Young hearts born with grief”

    “Lost to Ireland, lost in vain”

d) The target audience is men/women 16-40 (metalheads)

e) You can understand the song because the lyrics are clear and the lyrics are specific and easy to understand, Lyrics such as “The creak of the burial cart” helps you visualize how it was to be in Ireland during the famine. “A season of stolen youth” speaks of how the kids couldn’t have a good childhood because of how there was no food and most of them were starving and dying.

f) The song is effective because it sounds great and is a great tribute to the past of Ireland, the band being from Ireland. Its lyrics make you visualize the scene and the talk of violence and how people died is in the lyrics.

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
One is driven to exclaim
Oh god, that bread should be so dear
And human flesh so cheap[*]

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