Below is another song I heard on the radio yesterday which reminded me of the desperate call from the world. It is “Save Me” by Shinedown.
People all around us are crying out “Save me!” in their own unique ways. And I’ll tell you right now, for the vast majority, the solution is NOT “come to church and hear a sermon.” Listen as he sings about how he couldn’t handle forgiveness, and how he doesn’t know how he got where he is now. Near the end, he says the hardest question is “Why?” I agree. That is the hardest question, and pat answers don’t cut it.
In his last line, he says, “please don’t erase me.” What do you think he means by that?
And here are the lyrics:
I’ve got a candle,
And I’ve got a spoon
I live in a hallway
With no doors and no rooms
Under the window sill
They all were found
A touch of concrete within a doorway
Without a sound
Chorus:
Someone save me if you will
And take away all these pills
And please just save me, if you can
From the blasphemy in my wasteland
How did I get here
And what went wrong
Couldn’t handle forgiveness
Now I’m far beyond gone
And I can hardly remember
The look of my own eyes
How could I love this
A life so dishonest
It made me compromise
Chorus
Jump in the water
Jump in with me
Jump on the altar
Lay down with me
My hardest question
To answer is
WHY!!!
Chorus
Some one save me (x3)
Somebody save me
Somebody save me
Please don’t erase me
very good post.
many “secular” artists produce songs that are by far much more relevant than some “church” songs (not all church songs, let’s not misunderstand what I say…). This song reminds me some Psalms, the main difference would be the lack of hope. And it makes all things different!
some time ago I realized that one of the most horrible thing that God can do to humans is to withdraw Himself from humans. To stop revealing himself to them. One of the biggest fear of the psalmists and the prophets was that God would abandon Israël. And I see this judgement of God in Romans 1, when Paul writes: “Wherefore God also gave them up…” (24), and “God gave them over…” (28), … Could this be a meaning of the last sentence of the song ??
Please don’t erase me is saying he does not want to be “erased”, or forgotten by society due to his addiction. Very powerful.