Selected excerpts from Jonah:
Well, brothers and sisters
If you’re in the middle of a pond, enjoying some sunshine
You know, maybe you are floating on your back, there
And somebody comes along and
They drain all the water out of that pond
Now you’re laying on your back in the mud
You’re surrounded by old tires and rusty refrigerators
You can’t stand up on account of that mud
And you are stuck
See, things are as bad as they’ve ever been
Because there is no way out of the mud
You are stuck in that mud
And you don’t know how you got here
And you don’t know what you’re going to do about it
You are in the mud
And you are thinking about giving up on this whole thing
You’re thinking it might be better
Just to turn your head to the side there
And swallow up a little bit of that mud and end it all
It might be the best way out
You don’t know what you are going to do
You are stuck
Hold on children
I’m urging you now
I know things are bad
But pretty soon that old sun’s gonna come out
That old sun’s going to dry up all the mud
And then you can stand up
You’ll dust yourself off
And you will move on