Save You - about who?

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  • bacchanal
    bacchanal Posts: 149
    I Think Its About Mike.....
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    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.
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


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  • Pearls&Stones
    Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
    I have to vote for Mike.



    I'm glad others love the song as much as me.
    I love my female wife...
    we sit around and wonder exactly why our marriage should feel threatened by gay marriage
  • Spencer
    Spencer Posts: 867
    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
    WickedJeremy Posts: 229
    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).
    -Jeremy
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    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
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    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
    Franklin Delano Bluth Posts: 541
    Based on Ed’s comments from London night one, I don’t think this was about Mike. 
  • MM70435
    MM70435 Posts: 308
    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.”
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  • Ten Backspaced Riot Actors
    Ten Backspaced Riot Actors Posts: 436
    edited July 2022
    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

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