The Avett Brothers
The Charnel House
[MATE, spoken]
Not even here...
Not even in this charnel house can I rid myself of you

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
We're bound together, shipmate

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Lashed to the wheel

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
And the waves are rising

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Do you not feel the spray?

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
And there's no food

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
And there's no water

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
And the sun is blazing

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
And there's no hope of rescue
[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
You best drop to your knees, son

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Find God if you can

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Pray your heart out

[CAPTIAN, spoken]
Wake heaven

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Salvation? He doesn't believe in the word

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Have you told them our story?
It would beat Shiloh hands down, wouldn't it, big brother?

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
That it would, little brother

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
You should tell them our story

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
We should be remembered
[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
What you did

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Should be remembered

[MATE, spoken]
What I did

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Tell them our story

[MATE, spoken]
Let me die in peace!

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
There's no peace until you speak the words

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
No peace for you, or for us

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
We cannot escape

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
We cannot move on
[LITTLE BROTHER, BIG BROTHER, and CAPTAIN, spoken]
Until you tell our story

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
And tell it true

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
And tell it all

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Bring it into the light

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Don't be afraid of it anymore

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Bring us into the light

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
Release us

[LITTLE BROTHER, spoken]
Don't you want to find some peace?

[CAPTAIN, spoken]
Some corner of heaven?

[BIG BROTHER, spoken]
God only gives you but one chance to testify true