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 may 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, oh yeah

Like she was asking to be taken high above us

Didn't she love us?

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

Saints preserve us

Saints preserve us

Wherever we may fall

Saints preserve us

Saints preserve us

And carry us along