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