Save Me

About Save Me

Save Me is a song written and performed by Aimee Mann for use in the film Magnolia. It appears on the Magnolia soundtrack, which was released on December 7, 1999. The song also appears on the European edition of the album Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000), as well as the 2007 compilation album Acoustic 07. In 1999 "Save Me" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, which it lost to "You'll Be in My Heart" from the Disney movie Tarzan. By way of introduction to a live performance, Mann has referred to "Save Me" as "the song that lost an Oscar to Phil Collins and his cartoon monkey love song. " Furthermore, Mann has occasionally dedicated her song to Collins in several different venues, albeit in jest. It is Mann's best-known song as a solo artist, having also been nominated for a 2001 Grammy award as Best Pop Female Vocal (she lost to Macy Gray's "I Try"). The music video, shot during the filming of Magnolia, was directed by the film's director, Paul Thomas Anderson, and uses many of the film's actors, including Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, William H. Macy, and John C. Reilly. The video inserts Mann into various scenes from the film as she performs the song. Unlike many such music videos, the "Save Me" video used no digital manipulation; the scenes were shot at the end of filming days with Mann and actors who were asked to stay in place. more »

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2002

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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                        
The 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 down like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman

You will come to save me
C'mon and save me                                   
If you could save me                           
From the ranks of the freaks                   
Who suspect they could never love anyone       
'Cept the freaks                               
Who suspect they could never love anyone       
But the freaks                                 
Who suspect they could never love anyone       
                                               
C'mon 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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Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist. more »

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