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"
I got more love than anything else
But a Jezebel spirit gonna steal my health
Struck by the notion that it just might be
A method to the madness that I cannot see
Something for the freedom of a roughed-up soul
Forty-two years young is a little bit old
Boy named Sue sing a Tennessee tune
Got buffalo love living on the moon
[chorus]
Save this lady for me (x4)
Call me Alabama i'm a Seminole prize
Got time square hair and a bedroom eyes
Keystone cops and the billy bob chops
Gonna scare my kids gonna share my crops
Vampire blood and a baseball glove
Justa a little bit of what the girl is made of
National crash into the big lampoon
With a creature coming up from the black lagoon
[chorus]
Losing ground true sounds of liberty
The forest of the north might hold the key
Rocking to the rhythm of a ragtime band
Black flag wave on on my truck my man
Blasting for jones and the great unknowns
Got cheap cologne seventy-six trombones
Looking for the lady that won't be afraid
When heaven needs a hammer gotta get things made
I got more love than anything else
But a Jezebel spirit gonna steal my health
[chorus] (x2)
But a Jezebel spirit gonna steal my health
Struck by the notion that it just might be
A method to the madness that I cannot see
Something for the freedom of a roughed-up soul
Forty-two years young is a little bit old
Boy named Sue sing a Tennessee tune
Got buffalo love living on the moon
[chorus]
Save this lady for me (x4)
Call me Alabama i'm a Seminole prize
Got time square hair and a bedroom eyes
Keystone cops and the billy bob chops
Gonna scare my kids gonna share my crops
Vampire blood and a baseball glove
Justa a little bit of what the girl is made of
National crash into the big lampoon
With a creature coming up from the black lagoon
[chorus]
Losing ground true sounds of liberty
The forest of the north might hold the key
Rocking to the rhythm of a ragtime band
Black flag wave on on my truck my man
Blasting for jones and the great unknowns
Got cheap cologne seventy-six trombones
Looking for the lady that won't be afraid
When heaven needs a hammer gotta get things made
I got more love than anything else
But a Jezebel spirit gonna steal my health
[chorus] (x2)
Lyrics submitted by thetoppenguin
Save This Lady Lyrics as written by John Anthony Frusciante Michael Balzary
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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Woohoo first comment. I've only heard this song once but I think it's about how he is still looking for the perfect Lady as all the other band members have settled down with significant partners except Anthony.
It's "Vampire blood and a baseball glove"
Best B-side ever.
Isn't line 6 "Forty two years young is a little bit old?"
and line 7 "Boy named Sue" maybe??
awww i think this is definately about Anthony wanting to settle down now, with this song and the b-side from...i think it was snow "funny face" its certainly showing, that hes had enough with the one night stands, he wants a partner to live his life with.
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It's 'Losing ground, true sounds of levity' not 'liberty'
and i think it's 'suffering for the freedom of a roughed up soul'
listen to are you experienced by hendrix and you will notice it sounds the same