A friend put me on to this striking song by Sirenia, a goth-metal group (and a spin-off of my favorite group in this sub-genre, Tristania). Since most people who read this blog are probably not interested in that kind of music, I’ll mention that you shouldn’t seek out the album from which the song is taken, An Elixir for Existence, hoping to hear more like it, because most of the rest of the album is definitely metal and not at all like “Save Me.” (If, on the other hand, you do like that kind of music—I know there are at least one or two of you—you will almost certainly like the rest of the album.)
This belongs with Tom Waits’s “Make It Rain” on a list of songs about the absence of God. It seems to me that one who cries out “Save me from myself” is halfway toward understanding what Christianity is about, perhaps halfway toward faith. And I wonder if any culture not shaped by Christianity could have produced the song.
Note: the video (actually a series of still images) contains a rather bloody vampire image toward the end, if that sort of thing bothers you.
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