This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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
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
Lyrics submitted by Stephen_Flow
Save You Lyrics as written by Jeff Ament Eddie Vedder
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Nicely said and bang on the money.... Eddie has seen many a friend come and go needlessly.
@Grungegirl7 and now scott weiland... :/
yeah, walkthisway is right....mike wrote this song anyway, not eddie.
I think this song is about having a friend who you care about, but has taken the wrong path and is destroying his or her life in someway. You want to help the person, but the person seems to want you to go away and not care, they want to be alone, but you want to help them because they are important to you.
This is an incredible song about friendship, its like your friend has gone of the rail and they cant help themself, and u tell them u are always there for them when they need u, but u cant do it all yourself, they have to help you help them. everyone needs a friend to be there for them.
What a great song! If you're down, you need someone to pick you up. I think Eddie got help from a lot of people throughout his life. And he probably was reluctant to let them help. Now he's writing this song, and what a great song it is.
I was in a situation with a girl who was depressed to an extreme. She would tell me constantly that I was the one with the problems because I cared about her, and she told me she didn't want me to care. Now, I can't say things went well, what ended up happening was I found out that she was purposely trying to get me to hate her because she didn't believe she should be cared about. She was self destructive, but blamed me for her destruction, because I cared and wanted to help, even when she told me that she could make it on her own...because...as U2 has said, "Sometimes you can make it on your own." Anyways, when I was in this situation, this song really helped me, because I felt that Eddie was talking specifically about me and what was happening. In my opinion it's about how he's struggling to help a person who doesn't want him there,"Fuck me if I care, but I'm not leaving here." I'd also like to say that he's not saying from me...he's saying "fuck me". I think he's showing his anger with the situation, and his anger that he can't help this person that matters so much to him. I can relate completely, and this song will always be one of my all time favorites.
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This song does an excellent job of conveying a frantic urgency that both the speaker and the subject face.... The comfortable use of "fuck" shows just how far it has gone because Eddie rarely says fuck more than 2 or even three times in one song but in this song he says it about nine times truly showing the distress or necessity that the subjetc is in..... I personally think it is about eddie trying to save his marriage to Beth but i don't know.....