Saving Grace

By Bob Dylan

On Saved

Released on June 23, 1980

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[Verse 1]

If You find it in Your heart, can I be forgiven?

Guess I owe You some kind of apology

I’ve escaped death so many times, I know I’m only living

By the saving grace that’s over me


[Verse 2]

By this time I’d-a thought I would be sleeping

In a pine box for all eternity

My faith keeps me alive, but I still be weeping

For the saving grace that’s over me


[Verse 3]

Well, the death of life, then come the resurrection

Wherever I am welcome is where I will be

I put all my confidence in Him, my sole protection

Is the saving grace that’s over me


[Verse 4]

Well, the devil’s shining light, it can be most blinding

But to search for love, that ain’t no more than vanity

As I look around this world all that I’m finding

Is the saving grace that’s over me


[Verse 5]

The wicked know no peace and you just can’t fake it

There’s only one road and it leads to Calvary

It gets discouraging at times, but I know I’ll make it

By the saving grace that’s over me