Marc Cohn — Saints Preserve Us

[Verse 1] 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 alright here, sir There must be some mistake" [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] Saints preserve us Wherever we might fall This is all too big a mystery I remember I was standing In the corner of her room Saying "Look at how she's leaving us So quietly so soon" [Bridge] And in her final hour I saw her reaching up her hands (Oh yeah) Like she was asking to be taken high above us Didn't she love us? [Chorus] 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 [Outro] Saints preserve us (Yeah) Saints preserve us Wherever we may fall Saints preserve us Saints preserve us And carry us along