Shinedown: Save Me Meaning
Song Released: 2005
Save Me Lyrics
And I've got a spoon
I live in a hallway with no doors
And no rooms
Under a windowsill
They all were found
A touch of concrete within the doorway
Without a sound
Someone save me if you will
And take away all these...
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#1 top rated interpretation:For everyone talking about drugs yes he is probably talking about shooting pills but not all of them you have to heat and as for the
I live in a hallway
With no doors and no rooms
My guess he is talking about his veins only time he feels alive is when he has the needle in them
Under the window sill
They all were found
laying in a dark room under a window as his only light still hiting his veins
A touch of concrete within a doorway
Without a sound
most of these drugs are rather thick and will cause blood clots or a missed hit causing vein's to shut down and you never know untill the mind numbing pain hits
Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me, if you can
From the blasphemy in my wasteland
normal drugy I've got to deep and want out but can't because its took over mind and body
How did I get here
And what went wrong
Couldn't handle forgiveness
Now I'am far beyond gone
And I can hardly remember
The look of my own eyes
How could I love this
A life so dishonest
It made me compromise
once so far gone you no longer remember how something that started out for fun now is what makes you get out of bed everyday and for anyone that's not there or been there they don't understand and people are scared of what they don't understand like mental problems it's dis regard in the USA because if you can't see it then its not real people with drug problems and mental heath issues are never looked at like someone with cancer even tho a lot of times they are much worse off we have a close to cure for cancer where with drugs and mental problems everyone treats you like is just something you should get over all ya got to do is act normal like them
Jump in the water
Jump in with me
Jump on the altar
Lay down with me
My hardest question
Too answer is
WHY!
shoot dope like me lay back and enjoy the dope understand mylife because I can't and I need help but can't stop for everyone judging me
Some one save me
Somebody save me
Somebody save me
Please don't erase me
cry's for help not to be juged and hated don't turn me out of your lifes I need you to understand please help me
i maybe just as wrong as everyone else but this is what I hear me myself I am in these shoes this is my life I fucking hate it but I can't walk away and when ya tell anyone friends or family 90% of the time they turn there back's cause they don't know how to help and when people don't understand something it scares the shit out of them so much easier to just let you keep suffering and talk shit about cause of what a loser fuck up you are I have always asked if it was blood running down my face instead of tears would people understand then how bad it hurts would it make these drug and mental problems more real to them
sorry bout the spelling and gramer I know they suck trust me I've been me 27 years and it sucks
don't turn your back try to understand and a lot of times just shut the fuck up and listen to people's problems just because you can't solve them does not mean you can't help I've been tormented the last 15 years with these issues and if you share them I'm sorry for you but hang in there maybe someday people will understand and care enough not to just make us the outcast -
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#2 top rated interpretation:"I got a candle and I've got a spoon" an addiction
"how did I get here and what went wrong" they made a mistake and it lead to distaster.
"I can hardly remember the look of my own eyes" they miss or cannot remember who they used to be.
"the hardest question to answer is why" they are confused and unable to respond.
"someone save me if you will and take away all these pills
and please just save me if you can from the blasphemy in my wasteland" they are deperate to have their old life back and cannot handle their guilty conscience. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:"I've got a candle and I've got a spoon" Heroine, as well as some other drugs (though heroine is the one most commonly made in this fashion) is 'cooked' on a spoon held over a flame so it can be sucked into a needle and injected.
"I live in a hallway with no doors, and no rooms" Drug addiction can leave people trapped, with seemingly no way out (no doors, no windows, no means of leaving)
"Take away all of these pills" This could be referring to Methadane, or other drugs such as painkillers, ect.
"I can hardly remember the look of my own eyes, how could I love this a life so dishonest, it made me compromise" Addiction can make it hard or even almost impossible to recognize who you are and once were, and addicts are compulsive liars. Not only that but when dealing with addiction, you can compromise a lot just to get a quick fix. Family, happiness, love, honesty, money, even life itself. -
I was actually there at a concert and right before this song, Brent was talking about overcoming a heroin addiction and how if he could do it, anyone could... it's about that... I'm also a recovering addict, alot of the songs make me think/refer back to that. I LOVE SHINEDOWN! They became my FAVORITE bc right when I got into recovery, EVERY songs hits home!
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The part about couldnt hAndle forgiveness is talkimg about the 12 step narcotics Anonymos
Forgive ness is one of the.steps making amends is after forgiveness -
Obviously this song is about a heroin addiction, but more important is that hes desperate for help because he can't stop himself
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Big picture this song is about those people who are constantly putting others needs above their own, while they themselves have issues they are avoiding. Directly the song is about his drug problem and how he let it escalate by avoiding the situation.
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its about a drug addiction OFCOARSE! But if i had to guess i doubt it was methadone..but prolly oxycontin "which he says and take away all these pills" which is a form of herion. You melt them down on the spoon and then shoot it with a needle. I truly believe that was his addiction.
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About someone in a situation they can not get themselves out of themselves when they consider all that they have done to get out and nothing seems to change, I often feel this way, sometimes all I know to do is get religious and hope that someone understands my situation and can help, but you can not explain a situation to someone that does not believe in the same things or has never been in your shoes to know why or what to do to help without seeming like a slave owner and take away all your rights, its awful when you ask for help and just lose freedom the things we take for granted each and every day and then feel disgusted with ourself or yourself for telling the truth and not getting the help or the thing, comfort from a loved one, forgiveness, our own children, we need the most, or do not ask for help continue the same cycle of self destruction, and blame someone else that you think should be helping, like when I lived on the streets and wondered why my family did not come looking for me, it was like the just did not care, but I guess they figured I would come back when I was ready, or so they said, when I had had enough, and sometimes in some situations, going back is not seen as or not a potential option at all, I have a loved one now that is or appears to be going down a path similar to what occurred a decade ago, maybe not the same, but drugs and staying in relationships that are physically abusive and disrespectful in the most basic ways, and I do not know what to do, The last line of the song is do not erase me and those that care like me never erase you, your pain large or small or just plain numb now is felt and we feel guilty that we can not help or did not help enough to make you feel alright enough to keep going forward to stop trying to teach us that the pain is real, I know it is, I do and that is why I hurt and I want to help without tearing myself into a clump of worn out newspapers for cats to go in, because if you let it eat you up, it can take you way down yoruself, I heard someone say its for some to move on, to find someone else if you are in a bad relationship defined as one that does not function the way a healthy relationship should work, both productive members of society working toward a common goal and with respect for each other physically and mentally, and if I am correct the loved one I am referring to may need to find someone besides me, maybe something about me triggers the need to act out, like when I say I will sacrifice my need for physical pleasure to show you how much I care, I said early on I am a good man, I have made mistakes and fail at tasks I should be able to do still, but without knowing the facts, you will not have a clear enough view as to why I do the things I did and do now, like feelings of inadequacy that have nothing to do with the loved one, that have festered in me since a child, that may never change becuase I am too embarrasee== to accept the help or a part of me that I do not accept, and am reminded by in the mmm song that I will work on and post at some point, I function alright now, have a semi decent situation, much better than where I was, and I want the same for my loved one, to be happy, somehow escape from the adrenaline rush of always scared and on the run or from trying to explain the problem through acting out or simply trying to teach me how I should be by creating negative repurcussions that directly affect you and can only imagine myself and haunt me perhaps as a way to sacrifice for me, if that is what is happening and even if it is not, please call me, I will not lose my phone or damper the rings from now on I promise and will accept your calls no matter where I am, and maybe something happens where I can not answer that time, please keep trying, we can just talk about the weather if you want, and if not please know that I am trying to listen to you, trying to hear you when I feel you are speaking to me, and I am always thinking about you in a precarious way, but I am learning to change the last part into thinking about you in a healthy way to be able to function and perhaps someday be someone you can rely on and call a friend, I have said a lot, but I am here even if I am not logged in a lot of times, I do not chat with anyone, just this and the phones and my ebay, time is not on our side, I see that now, we need to move faster, 'smarter', remember better than ever before, and sometimes the situation gets to be too much stress for me to handle and I do my best to make it through like now
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I noticed that brent always gives the broadest interpretations to the simplest songs
yes this is about addiction
and realizing that there's really no
turning back on your own and that you
really need help only you have turned away
all the people that were there to help you
oh btw for the person asking under the windowsill /part refers to where people hide so others won't see them in the empty house
a touch of concrete within a doorway
theres usually no flooring on the floors just bare concrete
with out a sound
no one really talks to each other just do your stuff get high black out -
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The pills oxycontin, morphine, and methadone all have to be heated up with a flame in a spoon in order to shoot it up. It seems to me this dude's life has become nothing but a life full of pills. Seems like he has a strong will to quit drugs, but since he is addicted, he can't quit on his own. It's can be quite depressing and the only thing to do is more drugs. a vicious cycle. That's why he asks for someone to save him. He's done turned into someone he doesn't even recognize anymore; someone who can't even quit drugs on his own free-will. I think this is what the song is about
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Whats he talking about in the second half of the first verse? Under a window ceil...
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It is definitely about drugs. but I think there is more to it in that it is about how he wants help to get out of this hell that he has succumbed to, but it's like nobody can hear him. So all he can do is sit alone with his drugs until the reaper comes to save him.
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