Lay down softly in our sorrow    Lay down sister to die    And cover over, my sweet Father    Cover over her eyes       Your broken body, it cannot weather    The years your youth still longs to spend    So go down graceful, sleep with the angels    And wake up whole again       ‘Cause it was not your time; that's a useless line    A fallen world took your life       But the God that sometimes can't be found    Will wrap Himself around you    So lay down, sister, lay down       Slower passing are the hours    To tell this tale that takes its time    But the finest moment, no man can measure    Is to look your Savior in the eyes       So take her tender to Your table    Take her from this killing floor    To taste the water that is forever    Let her be thirsty no more       It was not her time; that's a useless line    A fallen world took her life       But the God that sometimes can't be found    Will wrap Himself around you    So lay down, sister, lay down       And the God that sometimes can't be found    Will wrap Himself around you    So lay down, Rita, lay down