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"Save Yourself" | ||||
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Single by Stabbing Westward | ||||
from the album Darkest Days | ||||
Released | August 25, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1997 at Eldorado Studios and NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood | |||
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Length | 4:13 (album version) 3:50 (edit) | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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Stabbing Westward singles chronology | ||||
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"Save Yourself" is a song by American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward. The song was released as the second single from the band's 1998 album Darkest Days . The track is one of the band's most known songs.
In a 2020 interview with Songfacts, lead singer Christopher Hall said:
We had a song on our record called "Sleep," which was a song about a girl who had been molested, and what she did to try and deal with it on a nightly basis. That song touched a lot of people that had similar experiences. They all reached out to me at shows, in letters, and in email, which was just starting to become a thing back then. They all had these tragic stories.
I just felt like everyone was looking to me for some sort of answer, because not only did we have "Sleep," but we had songs about mental illness and depression and dealing with hard times and loss and things like that, and everyone thought that since I had written these songs that I had found the answer. I hadn't. That's what "Save Yourself" is about. I know nothing. I'm right there with you, feeling the same things you're feeling. You have to figure it out for yourself.
At the time, it felt like a selfish song, like, "I can't help you, sorry." But I was trying to help them by saying only you can help yourself. [2]
The song's music video shows the band performing the song in a rundown house inhabited by strange people.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Save Yourself" (radio edit) | 3:50 |
2. | "Save Yourself" (LP version) | 4:13 |
Total length: | 8:03 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Save Yourself" (radio edit) | 3:50 |
2. | "Save This" (remix) | 6:35 |
3. | "P.O.M.F. Dispossessed" ("The Thing I Hate" remix) | 6:24 |
4. | "On Your Way Down" (Down and Out Remix) | 6:08 |
Total length: | 22:47 |
Chart (1998) | Peak positions |
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Australia (ARIA) [3] | 64 |
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard) [4] | 20 |
US Mainstream Rock Tracks (Billboard) [5] | 4 |
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