I wrote a four word letter Postscript in crooked lines Though Id lived Id never been alive. And 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 the only purpose of my being here Is to stay a bit longer Wielding a bicycle chain As the handlebars crashed to the ground The back wheel detached from the frame It kept rolling yeah But aimlessly drifting around Oh Doubters Lets go down Lets go down Wont you come on down? Oh Doubters Lets go down Down to the river to pray But Im so small I can barely be seen How can this great love be inside of me? Look at your eyes Theyre small in size But they see enormous things Wearing black canvas slippers And our frogonalilypad pose We sewed buttons and zippers To Chinese pink silk and olive night clothes If you can someday stop by Somehow well show you the pictures And fix you some tea See, my dads getting a bit older now And just unimaginably lonely Oh pretender Lets go down Lets go down Wont you come on down? Oh pretender Lets go down Down to the river and pray Oh but Im so afraid Im set in my ways But hell make the rabbits and rocks sing his praise Oh but Im too tired I wont last long No hell use the weak to overcome the strong Oh Amanda Lets go down Lets go down Wont you come on down? Mama, Nana Lets go down Down in the dirt By the river to pray A wick to fit the wax Wood to fit the wire You strike the match Why not be utterly changed to fire? And sacrifice the shadow in the mist Of a brief life you never much liked son If youd care to come along Were gonna curb all our neverending Clever complaining And whos ever heard of a singer criticized by his song? We hunger Though all that we eat brings us little relief We dont know quite what else to do We have all our beliefs But we dont want our beliefs God of peace We want you
let, doubter, pretender, river, pray