Lyrics Saints Preserve Us - Marc Cohn

Saints Preserve Us

I could hear the shutters banging
In my mother’s house
And the wind just kept blowing off the lake
I ran down to the front door
And told the ambulance man
Everything’s all right here Sir
There must be some mistake
Saints preserve us We’re all going down
This ship is sinking in the sea
Saints preserve us And carry us along
For we may be together in eternity
My father was staring off into another world
And my mother she was laying very still
The baby was crying
And I tried to block it out
Then from somewhere deep inside me Came a deathly chill
Saints preserve us Wherever we might fall
This is all too big a mystery
I remember I was standing in the corner of the room
Saying Look at how she’s leaving us So quietly so soon
And in her final hour
I saw her reaching up her hands
Like she was asking to be taken high above us Didn’t she love us?
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Saints preserve us Saints preserve us Wherever we may fall
Saints preserve us Saints preserve us And carry us along