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{{Infobox song
| name       = Save Me
| cover      = The Tea Party Save Me.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = Promo CD Single, CDPRO 801, Canada
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Tea Party (band)|The Tea Party]]
| album      = [[Splendor Solis (album)|Splendor Solis]]
| released   = 1993
| recorded   = White Crow Audio ([[Burlington, Vermont]])
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      =
| length     = 6:34
| label      = [[EMI]] Music Canada
| writer     = [[The Tea Party (band)|The Tea Party]]
| producer   = [[Jeff Martin (Canadian musician)|Jeff Martin]]
| prev_title = [[The River (The Tea Party song)|The River]]
| prev_year  = 1993
| next_title = [[A Certain Slant of Light]]
| next_year  = 1994
}}
"'''Save Me'''" is a song by [[Canada|Canadian]] [[rock music|rock]] band [[The Tea Party (band)|The Tea Party]]. It was released as a [[promotional single]] in Canada.<ref name = "splendor solis era">splendor solis era [http://teaparty.wild-one.com/splendor_solis.html The Tea Party a visual discography] Accessed 17 April 2007</ref> The music video was shot in Toronto, directed by [[Floria Sigismondi]].
"Save Me" features Jeff Martin playing guitar with violin bow (not unlike [[Jimmy Page]]) by setting the height of the strings to mimic a violin.<ref name = "Stuart Chatwood, In Tangents The Tea Party Collection 2000, CD, EMI Music Canada, Mississauga.">Stuart Chatwood, In Tangents The Tea Party Collection 2000, CD, EMI Music Canada, Mississauga.</ref> The song was written in 1991, and was first recorded for The Tea Party's [[The Tea Party (album)|eponymous album]]. Jeff Martin has said it is an apology to women and to their treatment by men.
<blockquote>"One Canadian magazine, reviewing a Tea Party gig noted '(the band) then went into their power show number "Save Me". Through an accomplished and strongly delivered vocal arrangement and many different interwoven song parts, all on top of cultured yet heavy guitar the band really hit its focus. The spirituality within the band came out in this song as they hushed down about eight minutes in and broke into [[Daniel Lanois]]' "The Maker", and then into [[Hendrix]]'s "[[Third Stone From the Sun]]". They were stunning musical maneuvers...'"<ref name = "Andrew Tanner, Turning music into gold April 1994, Beat, Melbourne, Australia.">Andrew Tanner, Turning music into gold April 1994, Beat, Melbourne, Australia.</ref></blockquote>
A semi-acoustic version with [[hurdy-gurdy]], electric guitar, Indian [[Tanpura (instrument)|tambura]], [[shekere]] and [[goblet drums]] was recorded in August 1995 at Studio Morin Heights ([[Morin Heights]]) for ''[[Alhambra (album)|Alhambra]]'', but appears as a B-side on the "[[Release (The Tea Party song)|Release]]" single and the European ''[[Triptych (The Tea Party album)#Special Tour Edition 2000|Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000]]'' album.
== Track listing ==
#"Save Me (edit)"
#"Save Me"
#"[[The River (The Tea Party song)|The River]] (remastered)"
== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnq0goeR04 The music video]
{{The Tea Party}}
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