Only God Can Save Us Now Lyrics

Lyric discussion by BabyM 

Cover art for Only God Can Save Us Now lyrics by Over the Rhine

Karin Bergquist wrote this after visiting her mother in the memory care unit of a nursing home. One of the other residents would, at seemingly random intervals, say "Only God can save us now."

My wife and I first heard this shortly after her mother went into a memory care unit, and it hit us like a sledgehammer to the heart.

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