Save You - about who?

halszka123
halszka123 Posts: 1,109
edited December 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
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
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  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    I'm pretty sure it's about Mike
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  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    ???
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    i think its mike too...but i think its meant to be universal...like alot of eds songs.... to him its about mike maybe...to you............... who knows
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    please explain me-littlestupigirl, why u think so? Do u know any story about it?
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    halszka123 wrote:
    please explain me-littlestupigirl, why u think so? Do u know any story about it?


    who is littlesupigirl?

    actually its probably not about mike....it could be about anyone

    you're too important to us...we'd be lost without you


    i always thought of we as the band but now i think about it more it could be saying

    me and you make we...without you its just I... so it could be about anyone...its universal...and a great song for it
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    macgyver06 wrote:
    who is littlesupigirl?
    I called myself. Sometimes i am a little tenderly for ME.

    But thank for answer. Though i thought He sings about sb special. My intuition whispers
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  • MichaelMcKevin
    MichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    I can't see this song being about Mike. I can't imagine him agreeing to play a song this harsh about him.

    I think it's about that friend that everyone has (god knows i do) who's got his/her problems and though they might be worse than most people's porblems, they feel sorry for themselves all the time. You try to help, and they attack you. They don't want your help. They don't want their own help. They just wallow in their own misery and continue down a destructive path. Definitely could be a very similar situation about an intervention with a friend who has a drug addiction.
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    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 think it's about that friend that everyone has (god knows i do) who's got his/her problems and though they might be worse than most people's porblems, they feel sorry for themselves all the time. You try to help, and they attack you. They don't want your help. They don't want their own help. They just wallow in their own misery and continue down a destructive path. Definitely could be a very similar situation about an intervention with a friend who has a drug addiction.


    i agree
  • Bushleaguer28
    Bushleaguer28 Posts: 776
    somebody once told me it was about Jack Irons . . . i never thought that but who knows . . .
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  • Scubascott
    Scubascott Posts: 815
    I'm pretty sure that its at least partly about Mike. I heard Mike and Ed talking about it in a radio interview. They didn't say it in so many words, but that was the distinct impression that I got.
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  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    It is about Mike.... Ed probably tried to make it seem like it was just a run of the mill everyone can relate song, but its basis smacks of Mikes drug/health problems in the past.
  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    I think it's about Ed...from someone else's perspective...possibly Mike's...

    At any rate, it's an awesome song and I love it!
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  • Staffan
    Staffan Posts: 606
    I read an old interview recently where Ed specifically says that this song and one more which I can't remember now is inspired by Mike's struggle with health and drug issues, but could be applied to anyone with similar problems.

    I for one, when I hear this song always think about if I faced the same problem, that I would like a good friend like that.

    but first and foremost, a f****** great song !!

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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    I (and I thought most people) just assumed this song was about Chris Cornell. I suppose it could be about Mike, except Mike wasn't really struggling with addiction (that we know of) when this song was written.

    If someone could actually produce an Ed interview saying it was about Mike, I'd buy it. But Cornell makes a lot more sense to me, given the time frame in which this song was written.
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  • tie-dye lady
    tie-dye lady Posts: 305
    I thought it was about Dee Dee Ramone "I don't wanna be without my best... friend" and "Casue there is but you,.. and something within you its taken control,.. lets beat it, get up lets go!". RA is dedicated to Dee Dee, among others, and he passed away just before they started recording it. I thought I read it somewhere that Ed said that's who the song was for but I could be wrong...and I can't remember where I read it...
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  • Switch
    Switch Posts: 119
    I thought it was generally recognised that Save You and Habit are about McCready's struggle with addiction. Mike himself said that he had times where he felt he dragged the band down but they were always there for him.
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    tie-dye lady wrote:
    I thought it was about Dee Dee Ramone "I don't wanna be without my best... friend" and "Casue there is but you,.. and something within you its taken control,.. lets beat it, get up lets go!". RA is dedicated to Dee Dee, among others, and he passed away just before they started recording it. I thought I read it somewhere that Ed said that's who the song was for but I could be wrong...and I can't remember where I read it...

    I think it's possible
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  • strummers
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    Pretty sure it's about Mike. I remember seeing one show (possibly London or Berlin) where Ed was looking at Mike a lot throughout the song and when he was singing 'come on hit me instead' he was turned directly to Mike and it was a pretty intense atmosphere - brought tears to my eyes!
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    It's about anyone who is attempting to listen to the riot act album. It's one of the few decent tunes on it, so Ed is trying to "save you" by not making it a total waste of your hour when you put the album on.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,259
    this song fucking rocks seeing is believing live that is >>>>> ....
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