"Save Me" is a song by American
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band
Shinedown
Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed by singer Brent Smith in 2001 after the dissolution of his previous band, Dreve. Smith, still under contract with record label Atlantic Records, recruited the band's original ...
. The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's second studio album, ''
Us and Them''. "Save Me" was the theme song for
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's
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event, and is their second most commercially successful single to date, reaching number one on the U.S.
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chart (and remaining there for 12 weeks). It is also Shinedown's third-highest charting song on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 (behind "
Second Chance" (number 7) and "
If You Only Knew" (number 42), peaking at number 72.
The foundations of the song date back to the mid-1990s, when the band's singer Brent Smith was just 16 years old and beginning to make demo tracks.
At the time the single was released to radio, the band was still working to complete the album which had not yet been mixed or mastered. According to Smith, "''when the first single, 'Save Me', hit the radio, I still hadn't written lyrics for four of the songs nor had sung four others on the album. I was in the studio working my ass off to get finished".''
Background
In 2011, singer Brent Smith said, “‘Save Me’ is a song about how people will take on everyone else’s problems and issues. When they put that much pressure on themselves, they’re going to hit a wall eventually. A person in my life saw me go through the darkest times in life. They picked me up. Eventually they had that dark time and I had to pick them up.”
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References
External links
Official music videoSave Me performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2005 singles
Shinedown songs
Songs written by Brent Smith
2005 songs
Songs written by Tony Battaglia
Atlantic Records singles
Songs about drugs
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