I wrote a four word letter with post-script in crooked lines   "Though I'd lived I'd never been alive"   You know who I am, you held my hem as I traveled blind   Listening to the whispering in my ear soft but getting stronger   Telling me only purpose of my being here is to stay a bit longer      Stealing a bicycle chain   As the handlebars crashed to the ground   The back wheel detached from the frame   Kept rolling, yeah, but aimlessly drifting around      Oh, doubters, let's go down   Let's go down, won't you come on down?   Oh doubters, let's go down   Down to the river to pray?      "Oh, but I'm so small, I can barely be seen   How can this great love be inside of me?"   Look at your eyes, they're small in size   But they see enormous things      Wearing black canvas slippers in our frog-on-a-lily-pad pose   We sewed buttons and zippers to Chinese pink silk   And olive night clothes if you can someday stop by somehow   We'll show you the pictures and fix you some tea   See my dad's getting a bit older now and just unimaginably lonely      Oh, pretenders, let's go down   Let's go down, won't you come on down?   Oh, pretenders, let's go down   Down to the river to pray?      Oh, but I'm so afraid or I'm set in my ways   But He'll make the rabbits and rocks sing His praise   "Oh, but I'm too tired, I won't last long"   No, He'll use the weak to overcome the strong      Oh, Amanda, let's go down   Let's go down, won't you come on down?   Mama, Nana, let's go down   Down in the dirt by the river to pray      You strike the match, why not be utterly changed by fire   To sacrifice the shadow and the mist   Of a brief life you never much liked   So if you'd care to come along   We're gonna curb all our never-ending clever complaining   As who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?      We hunger, but though all that we eat brings us little relief   We don't know quite what else to do   We have all our beliefs but we don't want our beliefs   God of peace, we want You