“Save Me” is a deep, dark song about mental abuse and illness. It features heavy acoustic and electric guitars and has a grunge/country feel.
lyrics
Long ago, trampled under foot unknown
So slow, we buried these bad memories
Now I cave under pressure from your mind
So save me, so I don’t have to suffer, please
You go and you can look away one more time
But once you’re gone, my sanity flees, and I need it
Can’t you see it?
Look at these eyes and study what’s inside
See, I needed you
But you looked away, look away one more time
Don’t cry me a river, because this river done run dry
I won’t find my way back home
If you can’t save me from my own mind
Sad face cripples me in my place
A head of guilt and thoughts, they still remind me
That day, I laid in wait for the dead
To take away, take me from my mind again
You go and you can look away one more time
But once you’re gone, my sanity flees, and I need it
Can’t you see it?
Look at these eyes and study what’s inside
See, I needed you
But you looked away, look away one more time
Don’t cry me a river, because this river done run dry
I won’t find my way back home
If you can’t save me from my own mind
Can’t you see it?
Look at these eyes and study what’s inside
See, I needed you
So you looked away, look away one more time
Don’t cry me a river, because this river done run dry
I won’t find my way back home
No, I won’t find my way back home
If you can’t save me from my own mind
Save me from my own mind
Save me from my own mind
credits
from Missing October,
released May 31, 2015
Written by: J. Coursey Willis
Produced by: Bryan Ewald, Steve Wright, J. Coursey Willis
Bryan Ewald: Guitar
Dan Carlisle: Bass
Jason Butcher: Drums
J. Coursey Willis: Vocals
Recorded at: Wright Way Studios & The Elsewhere Room
Mixed at: Wright Way Studios
Mastered at: Goldtone Masterworks
Artwork by: Tucker Joenz, J. Coursey Willis
Photography by: Tucker Joenz
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