This is the valley that I'm walking through   And if feels like forever since I've been close to You   My friends up above me don't understand why I struggle like I do   The shadow's my only, only companion and at night he leaves too      Down in the valley, dying of thirst   Now down in the valley, it seems that I'm at my worst   My consolation is that You baptize this Earth   I'm down in the valley, valleys fill first      Down in this wasteland, I miss the mountaintop view   But it's here in this valley that I'm surrounded by You   Though I'm not here by my will, it's where Your view is the most clear   So I'll stay in this valley if it takes forty years      Down in the valley, dying of thirst   When I'm down in the valley, it seems that I'm at my worst   My consolation is that You baptize this Earth   I'm down in the valley, valleys fill first      It's like that long Saturday between death and the rising day   When no one wrote a word, wondered, is this the end   But You were down there in the well, saving those that fell   Bringing them to the mountain again      Though I'm down in the valley, dying of thirst   When I'm down in the valley, it seems that I'm at my worst   My consolation is that You baptize this Earth   I'm down in the valley, valleys fill first   When You pour on Your water, valleys fill first