Written and Recorded by Aimee Mann
Many of us were first introduced to Aimee Mann as the lead singer of new wave band ‘Til Tuesday. And while many one-video-wonders from MTV’s heyday faded, Aimee’s “voice carried” into the nineties and beyond, blessing us with some amazing songs. Many of these songs are about bad love and feature great bridges.
In “Save Me,” we meet a lonely narrator who feels incapable of loving anyone and unworthy of anyone else’s love. But maybe this new guy is different:
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet.
Can he stop the bleeding? Can he save her from “the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone?” The bridge may have the answer! The Beatles-esque instrumentation and production come to full fruition with the rip of guitar leading the way from chorus to bridge and throughout the reveal of her feelings for him:
You struck me dumb
Like radium.
The guitar steps aside to allow a more playful, fairytale-like piano part to accompany her ambitious request:
Like Peter Pan
Or Superman
You will come
…to save me
I love it when a bridge directly connects to another part of the song through a line of lyric. In this case, the return to the chorus signifies the fleeting moment of fairytale love.
We never find out if he will save her. In fact, we never hear much from him at all. But that’s ok because instead, we are gifted with a verse shared between a melodica and a guitar, that while sad, offers the listener a sense of peace and hopefulness. And then she asks again, “Come on save me, why don’t you save me, if you can save me…”
-MJK
Many of us were first introduced to Aimee Mann as the lead singer of new wave band ‘Til Tuesday. And while many one-video-wonders from MTV’s heyday faded, Aimee’s “voice carried” into the nineties and beyond, blessing us with some amazing songs. Many of these songs are about bad love and feature great bridges.
In “Save Me,” we meet a lonely narrator who feels incapable of loving anyone and unworthy of anyone else’s love. But maybe this new guy is different:
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet.
Can he stop the bleeding? Can he save her from “the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone?” The bridge may have the answer! The Beatles-esque instrumentation and production come to full fruition with the rip of guitar leading the way from chorus to bridge and throughout the reveal of her feelings for him:
You struck me dumb
Like radium.
The guitar steps aside to allow a more playful, fairytale-like piano part to accompany her ambitious request:
Like Peter Pan
Or Superman
You will come
…to save me
I love it when a bridge directly connects to another part of the song through a line of lyric. In this case, the return to the chorus signifies the fleeting moment of fairytale love.
We never find out if he will save her. In fact, we never hear much from him at all. But that’s ok because instead, we are gifted with a verse shared between a melodica and a guitar, that while sad, offers the listener a sense of peace and hopefulness. And then she asks again, “Come on save me, why don’t you save me, if you can save me…”
-MJK
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