| "Savin' Me" | |||||||||||||
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| Single by Nickelback | |||||||||||||
| from the album All the Right Reasons | |||||||||||||
| Released | April 25, 2006 (See release history) |
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| Format | Digital download (NA), CD single (elsewhere) | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2005 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||
| Genre | Post-grunge | ||||||||||||
| Length | 3:39 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Roadrunner | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger, Daniel Adair[1] | ||||||||||||
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"Savin' Me" is a rock song written by Canadian band Nickelback. It was released as the third major single from their fifth album All the Right Reasons (2005). The song has reached number two on the Canadian Singles Chart and number nineteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is one of the band's few videos in which they are not shown performing. It was featured in the closing credits to the film The Condemned as well as in the commercials for the third season of Battlestar Galactica.
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UK 3-track single (June 13, 2006)
EU CD single (April 27, 2006)
The music video opens with a man in a trenchcoat wandering near a street corner. He then sees a young man talking on a cell phone about to get hit by a New Jersey Transit bus, and pulls him back just in the nick of time, and then walks away. The young man starts staring at other people as the song begins.
Eventually, the viewer sees that the young man sees timers with glowing numbers counting down above the heads of everyone around him; except himself. To everyone else he appears to be crazy. He is baffled by the timers until he sees an elderly woman being brought out on a stretcher: when the timer above her head reaches zero, she dies. Shortly afterwards he sees a young woman sitting down and peeling an orange. She has numbers above her head and in front of her pregnant stomach. He also sees that he cannot see the timer above his own head. He soon spots a business woman about to enter her car, and sees her timer rapidly dwindles much faster than it should, dropping from the millions to the single digits in a matter of seconds. He pulls her out of the way just before her car is crushed by a falling statue in a crate (which, in an example of foreshadowing, can be seen in midair about halfway through the video (timestamp 2:00.01). The young man, talking on a cell phone. then walks away with his own reappearing glowing numbers overhead, just as the man who had saved him did, leaving the businesswoman astonished as she now sees the timers over everyone else's heads.
The band is in an apartment; Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake are singing on camera, but no instruments are played; the other band members are seen simply staring at the camera, or into space.
There has been a lot of discussion and debate into who exactly the song is "calling out for". Some believe for it to be a lover of the protagonist, while some believe it to have religious meaning, with themes of forgiveness and redemption, with lyrics such as "Heaven's gates won't open up for me" and "teach me wrong from right". So far Nickelback has not specifically addressed this uncertainty.
| Country | Release Date | Version |
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| United States | April 25, 2006 | Original |
| United Kingdom | June 5, 2006 | |
| December 2008 | Re-Release |
| Chart (2006/08)[2] | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart | 18 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 43 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 2 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 25 |
| German Singles Chart | 72 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 47 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 9 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 82 |
| Slovak Airplay Chart | 25 |
| UK Singles Chart | 77 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 29 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Pop Songs | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs | 29 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 14 |
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