For My Sunday Song #324, we are discussing the song “Save Me” by Shinedown. The song is off their 2005 album ‘Us and Them’. The song went to #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and #72 on the Billboard Hot 100…didn’t quite make to Top 40. The song was written by Brent Smith and Tony Battaglia.
The song is something Brent had worked on back in the 90’s, but finally finished it for the ‘Us and Them’ album. It is about those people that want to help out and solve everyone else’s problems and issues. They take on so much that they run in to problems of their own and then need to be saved. The exact same thing happened to Brent we someone tried to help and later he had to help them.
Brad Stewart opens the song with a cool bass line which is accompanied by some eerie guitar riffs from Jasin Todd that give the song this whole doom and gloom vibe. Barry Kerch’s drumming is superb and his fills give the song a little something extra and help with the intensity that is in Brent’s vocals. The chorus amps up the energy and there is an urgency in the song that gives you chills. A standout track on the album for sure.
Give the song a listen and let me know what you think. Do you know someone that tries to take on everyone else’s problems? I think we all do. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful and Happy Sunday!
“Save Me”
I got a candle
And I’ve got a spoon
I live in a hallway with no doors
And no rooms
Under a windowsill
They all were found
A touch of concrete within the doorway
Without a sound
Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me if you can
From my blasphemy in my wasteland
How did I get here
And what went wrong
Couldn’t handle forgiveness
Now I’m far beyond gone
I can hardly remember
The look of my own eyes
How can I love this a life so dishonest
It made me compromise
Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me if you can
From my blasphemy in my wasteland
Jump in the water
Jump in with me
Jump on the altar
Lay down with me
The hardest question to answer
Is why
Why
Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me if you can
From my blasphemy in my wasteland
Someone save me
Someone save me
Somebody save me
Somebody save me
Please don’t erase me
Written by Brent Smith and Tony Battaglia
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Good track. Never heard it before and Smith has a good voice I tell ya
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Smith is awesome! I love his tone.
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There used to be a player on the Carolina Hurricanes named Bates Battaglia – I don’t think I’d heard that surname before or since. But he was a good player & this Battaglia’s a good songwriter, so the Battaglias are batting 1000 so far!
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Ha! Maybe they are related.
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Great song but again, I can’t remember if they played it at Download.
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The first two albums don’t get as much love as they should because “The Sound Of Madness” was so huge.
Good pick and hopefully more people would discover early Shinedown.
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They don’, but they are awesome!!
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