"Savin' Me" | ||||
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Single by Nickelback | ||||
from the album All the Right Reasons | ||||
Released | February 27, 2006 | |||
Studio | Mountainview (Abbotsford, British Columbia) | |||
Length | 3:39 | |||
Label | Roadrunner | |||
Songwriter(s) |
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Producer(s) | Joey Moi[2] | |||
Nickelback singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Savin' Me" on YouTube |
"Savin' Me" is a song written and performed by Canadian band Nickelback. It was released as the fourth overall single from their fifth studio album, All the Right Reasons (2005). The song reached number two on the Canadian Singles Chart, became another top-10 hit for the band in New Zealand, peaking at number nine, and peaked at number 19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. The music video was very well received and it is among their most well known videos. When the song returned to the band's live setlist during their Feed the Machine Tour; an edited version of the video, without the parts showing the band, was played on the big screen during the performance, being the only song with a music video during their live performances.
The verse "I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story" is a reference to the eighteenth chapter of Dante Alighieri's poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy[citation needed]. The song was featured in the closing credits to the film The Condemned as well as in the commercials for the third season of Battlestar Galactica and the second season of Prison Break. It was also the title theme for the TV series Surgery Saved My Life.