Tina! Tina! Tina! Tina!

Out of the flames
A piece of brain in my hair
The wheels are melting
A ghost is screaming your name.

Tina! Tina!

Bleeding all around
Liquid metal through my veins
The radio's burning
A ghost is screaming your name

Tina! Tina! Tina! Tina!



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Track duration: 08:21

"Don't Save Us from the Flames" as written by Anthony/gonzalez Gonzalez

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    General Comment:i love the girl in this video, i can't explain why tho
    Flag NWrolleron September 26, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:First of all this is truly an amazing song and props to M83 for the My Bloody Valentines vibe in this pic song.

    Secondly - The video has nothing to do with the song and I think even the band has said it on a number of interviews.

    My interpretation is that it is the aftermath of a car crash. The song starts just as the narrator ,or the person that represents the lead voice, in the car awakens to find herself/himself engulfed in side the flaming car.

    I think that the person in the car IS TINA and someone is calling for her to get out. The person screaming Tina is could be inside the car as well.
    Tina!
    Tina!
    Tina!
    Tina!

    "Out of the flames A piece of brain in my hair." - Tina awakens from unconsciousness here and is confused and in major shock. She manages see her hair before her face and realises that the pieces of debris before her eyes is actually pieces of her brain. Tina must have slammed against the dash pretty hard.
    "The wheels are melting" -Now the singer describes the intense heat TINA must be feeling inside the car.

    "A ghost is screaming your name" -At this point it is assumed that TINA is quickly loosing consciousness due to the extreme pain and shock. Someone actually is still screaming her name but in her pain induced hallucination her mind rationalizes that it must be ghosts or angles coming for her.

    Bleeding all around Liquid metal through my veins. - Here once again the singer who now becomes a 3rd person narrator. The narrator describes the intensity of the heat and the pain Tina must be feeling. This I think is used to signal that Tina maybe still clinging to consciousness and witnessing her the burning of her own body but she is unable to move or do anything about it.

    The radio's burning. - the Narrator is Tina once again revealing her very last coherent thought as she burns inside the flaming car.

    A ghost is screaming your name - Here the Narrator is not Tina but reveals that Tina has succumbed to the flames and signals in this line that she is certainly doomed withing the car. As she dies Tina still is able to hear her named being called for her to escape. But unfortunately its too late.

    Tina!
    Tina!
    Tina!
    Tina!

    Don't Save Us From the Flames - Possibly Tina crashed on purpose and did not want to escape or could not. In the intense pain she was in the brain probably shutdown and stop receiving pain information and she thought "why escape if I can't feel anything." I mean she is certainly burned and was severely injured in the crash. Maybe she did not want to go on in such a state.
    Flag deepdowninsideon July 13, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:wow, i sat on a train coming back home just leaning back staring up at the lights listening to this, coming home like 7pm at night and i don't know, it was the most amazing and weirdest feeling i'd ever felt, such beauty in this song
    Flag phieokayon January 12, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:For me, the lyrical self of this song is "the guy", or the guy in the video, if you wish. He's involved in a car crash (along with his girlfriend, not Tina), and before dying he screams the name of the girl he really likes (Tina).
    Obviously, this could only be Tina's imagination, or her wishes, after she sees him driving away with another girl.
    Flag valcovon December 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Who is this Tina? lol
    Flag KtAROon December 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:in the music video she's riding a bicycle, while dressed as a ghost. could the wheels refer to her biking rather than a car? and in the video, she sort of becomes a ghost..also, this video and the video for teen angst are like a storyline
    Flag musicflowerson October 03, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:My name is Dina, so when I listen to this song, it sounds like he's saying my name.
    It's great.
    Flag othatzsokewlon April 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I am not sure about this, but I read somewhere, that the name Tina is originally a real girl's name, who had died in a car crash and that is why M83 made the song.
    I tried to look on the Internet but didn't succeed. Could it possibly be based on the truth? Thanks!
    Flag paliceon February 16, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Whoever said this is like My Bloody Valentines 'When You Sleep' is scarely the only person I have ever heard make comparisons of the two apart from myself. This and 'When you Sleep' are probably in my favourite songs of all time. Amazing. Just Amazing. (This song also reminds me of Wuthering Heights. Maybe the ghost cries of 'Tina' echo the ghost of Catherine in the book.)
    Flag Maeby_Surelyon January 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Of course someone is going to relate the song to drugs. Almost every song that is on this website has a comment about it being about drugs. Crystalegg, just because you think it's about Crystal Meth doesn't mean you're correct, so don't call anybody an idiot.
    Did anyone catch the story that Vee wrote on page one? It makes this song a little more haunting than it already is.
    Flag Viellerukaon January 13, 2009   Link

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