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Save Me Lyrics
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you save me?

Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

'Cause I can tell you know what it's like
A long farewell of the hunger strike
But can you save me?

Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone.

You struck me dumb, like radium
Like Peter Pan, or Superman
You have come to save me

Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

Come on and save me
Why don't you save me?
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who could never love anyone

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Bite Me
05-13-2002

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Do you guys think she's talking about a junkie when she says tourniquette? Those are what you tie around your arm when you shoot up. Well, I don't because because they are also used to temporarily stop you from bleeding (Figuratively in this case).Anyway, I think the sorta lame Superman and Peter Pan references hurt this otherwise pretty cool song a little. Does anyone ever look at these Aimee Mann lyrics? Helloooooo...

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rainydayboy
05-14-2002

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hell yeah im all about aimee mann. i just had this craving for her songs so i downloaded tons today. i think she is talking about people that for some reason just don't fit in. Superman and peter pan are things that people wish they were. I think this song is all about wishing you were something you are not. Thats why it was in the movei Magnolia because all those people wanted to be something they werent. They just werent happy with who they were.

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dewdrop
05-20-2002

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Basically the world is amok with folks who have issues with intimacy--the so-called "freaks who suspect they could never love anyone". And one day you wake up and realize that you're sick to death of looking for that one person who's not an emotional basket case. The narrator wants her new relationship to work out, but she's unsure, because her man would have to practically have superpowers to help her forget all shit she's been through.
I particularly love the last verse-- because, of course, the universe is also brimming with folks who are so fucked up that the only people they can love are people who don't love, period.
This song is practically a masterpiece of modern alienation! Go, Aimee, go!

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Nimbus the Kitten
06-10-2002

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nicely put there dewdrop. i saw this music video and the song grabbed me mentally and i just unknowingly downloaded it. aimee rules and is a nice change from yelling and jumping and screaming for a little while. punks like mellow music too, we're not all 'scream and mosh! etc etc' whatever the stereotype is for punks these days, i dont keep track. anyway, aimee has an amazing voice and shes a great lyricist.

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joanna or not
06-30-2003

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dewdrop said it all.

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driggsy
06-05-2004

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Great song. Great words. Aimee also does the cutest little physical stretch upward each time she hits the higher "save me"s, as though the stretch will help her hit the notes. (She is awesome in concert!)

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alliecat387
04-07-2005

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I don't think that the "tourniqutte" has anything to do with drugs. When I think of the word I think of something tightening that cuts off all circulation, which is what I think the actual thing is. When she says she's in need of one, I think what she means is she needs someone to cut her off from the world and all of her problems; she needs to be saved.

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Thowky
05-24-2005

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I agree that the word "tourniquette" is related to cutting off circulation. I feel it means that the person gets too caught up in the world and their worries, overanalysing everything. They need to stop feeling for a while in order to actually see their life for what it is and stand any chance of sorting out their problems.

I actually think she could be talking about herself in the song. She wants someone else to save her and fix everything thats wrong with her. She imagines someone stepping into her life and sorting everything out but in reality wonders "Why don't you save me?" and knows deep down that the only person who can really save her is herself but doesn't see how.

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ginaml
09-03-2005

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i love mellow songs like these. i came across this song by chance and am glad that i did.

basically its been summed up before, the world is stricken of love and aimee is sick of it and needs someone to save her from these emotionless people.

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Loose Tongue
12-23-2005

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'...From the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone...' AIMEE MANN dosen't want to be chatted up by lonely men. Or maybe she wants love from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club. Brilliant song found on the movie of a literal lifetime MAGNOLIA starring Tom Cruise.

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cloudgirl
01-25-2006

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This is one of the best songs ever written. It clearly has some self-pity, but if she can't love anyone, then of course she feels sorry.. the character in this song still has a heart. I believe this song was written for the character "Claudia" in Magnolia, who can't save herself from destruction and can't make connections with anyone else. She wanders through a life of lonliness.

I listened to this song a lot in Colorado. When you feel like a freak it's hard to love anyone.. you don't want to be vulnerable. Yet, the voice in this song is vulnerable and sensitive. She wants a final chance at redemption, to jump back into life: "Save Me."

On first listen this song really freaked me out. But if you give it multiple listens, you will draw a lot from it. The bridge is beautiful, and the chorus makes me cry.

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Foo Rules
03-19-2006

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I've always thought that this song was about using alcohol (or possibly some other mind-altering substance) as a crutch to try to gain social status. Simply the line, "save me, from the ranks of the freaks." Is what made me think this the most, but also the lines, "You left me dumb, like radium" and "You look like the perfect fit." I don't think the tourniquette is really a reference to anything, except for the fact that it is something that is used to help people in trouble, and it is also a cool word that rhymes with "fit". But anyways, I think that she is afraid that she is going to be ranked in with the freaks, so she uses alcohol to save her .

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Cristiano Repupilli
03-27-2006

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I don't see how this song is related to drugs or alcohol in anyway. The message seems quiet clear... 'she' believes herself incapable of loving again, probably because she's been badly hurt in the past... that's why she needs a tourniquet; to stop bleeding.

However, now she's met somebody who seems "the perfect fit" for her and she's asking "but can you save me?”, that is to say, ‘can you really make me change my mind about love?’ as right now she belongs to that rank of people who don’t believe in it.

In Magnolia, where I first heard this song, I think ‘save me’ is particularly indicated to Claudia Wilson Gator (Melora Walters) story. She’s incapable of loving (‘cause of her father's actions in her childhood?) but then she meets the policeman (John Reilly) who seems such a perfect fit for her. Despite all, she’s afraid of loving or afraid she’ll never be able to love someone, that's why she is so reluctant with him. Oh well, that's my interpretation anyway.

BTW, great song

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this-is-how-it-goes
12-30-2007

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I think its about being the sort of person who doesn't let yourself love anyone for fear of hurt or rejection, but at the same time desperately wanting someone to come and make you realise that thats stupid and love can happen even in what seems to be a mixed up sort of place.

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samadee
07-29-2008

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this song hurts, from the first to last note.

the way she sings "you will come" kills me every single time.

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missme
05-10-2009

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"Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone."

Perfect.

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