Save You - about who?

bacchanal

I Think Its About Mike.....

Drop The Leash 10

I thought it was about Mike's pill addiction. which is why after he was talkin about his tatts in IIC i was hoping they would go into Save You.

Pearls&Stones

I have to vote for Mike.



I'm glad others love the song as much as me.

Spencer

This song is DEFINITELY about Mike, Ed has said as much before.

Want further evidence? Look in the Riot Act booklet and who's picture is shown right next to the Save You lyrics?...Yep, Mike McCready.

WickedJeremy

halszka123 wrote:

Does anybody know about who is that song? The lyric's are so simple but so pur e, genuine. I am crazy about this song recently

This is an easy one: It's about my uncle (at least every time I hear it).

JordyWordy

GivenToCarve wrote:

I can't see this song being about Mike. I can't imagine him agreeing to play a song this harsh about him.

i dont see how its harsh...it talks about how much the habit he had (or whoever it is) fucked him up and how he made himself suffer, and they are trying to help him. its about having friends who actually give a fuck about you and arent shy about addressing you regarding your problems. i know id fucking rather that than watch a friend let an addiction/bad habit totally fuck them up.

ed and mike have both said its about mike, but its lyrically vague enough to apply to anyone who has a friend of that nature, and i think its a fantastic song.

Anon

spencer wrote:

This song is DEFINITELY about Mike, Ed has said as much before.

Want further evidence? Look in the Riot Act booklet and whose picture is shown right next to the Save You lyrics?...Yep, Mike McCready.

That's not evidence. His picture is next to all or none too. Maybe it's not about any 'one' person in particular. No one has really got any concrete evidence it's about Mike. All i know is i saw it live in 2003 and again in 2006 and it freaking rocked my socks off. Especially 2006. Wow.

It's a wicked cool song. Mccready wrote the guitar riff to it.

Franklin Delano Bluth

Based on Ed’s comments from London night one, I don’t think this was about Mike. 

MM70435

Franklin Delano Bluth said:

Based on Ed’s comments from London night one, I don’t think this was about Mike. 

Man, you dug out a post that is 15 years old.  Definitely not about Mike.   “We don’t play that song very much and I realized the person we wrote it about we didn’t save.”

Ten Backspaced Riot Actors

I am going to agree with others that it’s about Cornell.  

I find it interesting reading the lyrics to Save you and Cochise.  They were both released about the same time.  

Could be nothing but I wonder if they are related to one another.




Save You

Gonna save you fucker, .not gonna lose you
Feeling cocky and strong, can't let you go,
Too important to me

Too important to us, we'd be lost without you
Baby, let yourself fall, I'm right below you now

And fuck me if I say something you don't want to hear
And fuck if you only hear what you want to hear
Fuck me if I care, but I'm not leaving here

You helped me when I was down, I'll help when you're down
Why are you hitting yourself, c'mon hit me instead

Let's pick up your will, it's grown fat and lazy
I'm sympathetic as well, don't go on me now

And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfist and clear
And you're not leaving here without me, I don't want to be without
My best friend, wake up to see you could have it all

Cause there is but you, and something within you
It's taken control, let's beat it, get up let's go

Oh you're in your own world, let's see the whole world
Let's pick up your soul

And fuck me if I say something you don't want to hear
And fuck me if you only hear the treble in your head
Please help, me, to help you, help yourself

Help me help yourself, please want me to, please let me to

Help you

Cochise

Well, I've been watching
While you've been coughing
I've been drinking life
While you've been nauseous
And so I drink to health
While you kill yourself
And I've got just one thing
That I can offer
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me, yeah
I'm not a martyr
I'm not a prophet
And I won't preach to you
But here's a caution
You better understand
That I won't hold your hand
But if it helps you mend
Then I won't stop it
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me, yeah
Drown, if you want
And I'll see you at the bottom
Where you crawl
On my skin
And put the blame on me
So you don't feel a thing
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me
Go on and save yourself
And take it out on me, yeah