The Avett Brothers
Nothing Short of Thankful
[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Right here!

[MATE, spoken]
Hey man!

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Yes?
I'm packed and ready to set sail

[MATE, spoken]
Well I-

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Guess
I gotta lot of friends to make!

[MATE, spoken]
Who is this-

[CREW, spoken]
Fool?

[MATE, spoken]
Hard to say exactly what he is
Guess we've been cursed
[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Blessed!

[MATE, spoken]
Sure as hell it don't feel that way

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'm walkin' a different highway

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[MATE]
You're travelin' a different line, now

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'll find what I need if you let me

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind
[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'll find mine

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Shipmates!

[CREW, spoken]
Yes?

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Raise the sails and haul the anchor up

[LITLLE BROTHER, spoken]
Please try to accеpt apologies for the latenеss that I've caused

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Can you stand-

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Still? I'm nothing short of grateful for my trip

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
God help me

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
I'm nothing short of thankful
[CREW]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'm walkin' a different highway

[CREW]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[MATE]
You're travelin' a different line, now

[CREW]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'll find what I need if you let me

[CREW]
Nothin' gonna change my mind
I'll find mine

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Found you

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
What the hell are you doing here?!

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
You get your ass over here and off of this boat right now!

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
You followed me here?!

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Tracked you every step of the way. Now come on! We're going home!

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
You got no business chasing me down like a hunted rabbit

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Then stop running like one

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
I'm not going home. I'm going to sea!

[MATE, spoken]
Don't normally get such high drama leaving port

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
You stay out of it!

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[MATE]
You're walkin' a different highway

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[MATE]
You're travelin' a different line, now

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'll find what I need if I want it

[MATE & LITTLE BROTHER]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'll find mine

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Gang's aweigh!

[LITTLE BROTHER & BIG BROTHER, spoken]
No!

[CREW]
Boss man said work your way
Put it off for another day
I'm not listening tomorrow may not come
Lazy men find an easy way
Easy work for easy pay
I'm not listening there ain't no such a thing as that

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Stop! Turn this ship around!

[MATE, spoken]
Son, this is a 300-ton vessel just left its berth for the open sea. You can't just turn it around like Aunt Polly's carriage off to Sunday school
Captain! We have a new crew member, sir

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Show me your papers

[MATE, spoken]
Got no papers, sir. Another farmer boy

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Another goddamn useless, gangly, hayseed son of a bitch?! All right, put him to work

[MATE, spoken]
You heard the Captain. Like it or not, you're both whalers now. Hope you enjoy our little scenic cruise through the romantic South Seas

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Sir, sir, please listen to me. I want to go with you. All I wanna do is see the world and have a proper adventure. But he's got nothing to do with this!

[MATE, spoken]
He does now. I do wonder if you have any idea what you signed up for

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
I didn't sign up for nothin'! This is pure piracy!

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Well, I'm ready for it. Far as I'm concerned anything's got to beat the ass end of a plow mule, right?

[MATE, spoken]
Hey, I'll tell you what, you ask me that again when we've been at sea for three months without land in sight, and you're covered with whale blood and there's no food but hardtack and sour water you can't keep down, and you haven't had a proper shit in a week and your hands are bleeding from the ropes and your face is crusted with salt so your eyes sting which means you can't sleep, and the waves are pounding, and the ship is rolling and bucking like a two-bit dockside sportin' lady, and you like to slit your own throat to get one blessed minute of goddamn peace

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Hell, man, you ever seen the ass end of a plow mule?

[CREW]
One, two
One, two, three, four!
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'm walkin' a different highway

[CREW]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'm travelin' a different line

[CREW]
Oh, nothin' gonna change my mind

[LITTLE BROTHER]
I'll find what I need if I want it

[CREW]
Nothin' gonna change my mind

Oh, oh, oh
Hey!
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Sweet Lord, I did not bargain for this!

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
We been through worse, big brother. Blizzard of '82 for one. You recall that pestilence

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
At least we were home

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Not again

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
We belong at home

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Then you should have goddamn stayed there! I never asked you to come rooting after me!

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
You think I wanted to step away planting time to come save your threadbare ass?!

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
That's you all over. Plowing, reaping, sowing. Damn, look past the hedgerows, brother

[MATE, spoken]
Still don't quite comprehend how you two ended up here. You don't seem, shall we say, natural mariners?

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
I left home, you follow? Couldn't stand one more day on that damn farm doing the same hard thing every hard day. There's got to be more in this life I reckon. Anything, everything, let it hit me, let it pummel me to my knees just let me live!