"Saved My Life" is a song performed by

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singer-songwriter Sia. The song was released on 2 May 2020, after she performed it during the online ''

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during the

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. The proceeds from the song benefit

and CORE Response. It is featured on Sia's album ''

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'', released in February 2021. Lyrically, the song is about her friend saving her from suicide in 2016.

Background

Sia wrote "Saved My Life" in a session with

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Composition

Written by Sia, frequent collaborator

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and British singer-songwriter

, "Saved My Life" is a

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which features piano, keyboards, bass, drums and guitar played by Kurstin. The track opens up as a piano ballad and slowly builds into a grand track filled with

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and an uptempo beat. Sia's vocal performance on the track was described as "passionate" by ''mxdwn''. "Saved My Life" has a length of three minutes and fifty-five seconds.

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from

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. * Sia – writer, vocals *

– writer *

– writer, producer, bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, piano, programming, engineer, mixer, masterer * Julian Burg – engineer *

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– masterer

Charts

References

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