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Bob Dylan

Saving Grace

Release date: 23rd June 1980

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‘Saving Grace’ by Bob Dylan is a track from the album ‘Saved’, released in 1980. The lyrics are soaked in relief and unsteady gratitude, with the speaker asking for forgiveness, promising an apology, and recalling a brush with death. There is a persistent sense of being kept going by something outside the self, captured in the line “saving grace that’s over me”. The second verse turns darker, considering the idea that they should have been dead and buried, before returning to the same refrain of survival as grace rather than earned outcome.

"Saving Grace" is a track by Bob Dylan, from the album Saved, released 23rd June 1980. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Bob Dylan.

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Saving Grace

[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

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Bob Dylan
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  9. —Pressing On

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