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"Save Yourself"
Single by Stabbing Westward
from the album Darkest Days
Released1998
Recorded1997 at Eldorado Studios and NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood
Genre
Length4:13 (album version)
3:50 (edit)
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Stabbing Westward singles chronology
"Sometimes It Hurts"
(1998) 		"Save Yourself"
(1998) 		"Haunting Me"
(1999)

"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.

Background

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]

Music video

The song's music video shows the band performing the song in a rundown house inhabited by strange people.

Track listing

Promo single
No.TitleLength
1."Save Yourself" (radio edit)3:50
2."Save Yourself" (LP version)4:13
Total length:8:03
EP single
No.TitleLength
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

Appearances in other media

Chart positions

Chart (1998) Peak
positions
Australia (ARIA)[3] 64
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)[4] 20
US Mainstream Rock Tracks (Billboard)[5] 4

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Paolo Gregoletto: Nu-Metal - Revered or Reviled? The Top Ten". All Axess. (January 5, 2015). Retrieved on January 6, 2019
  2. ^ Prato, Greg (June 1, 2020). "Christopher Hall of Stabbing Westward". Songfacts. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  3. ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 04 Oct 1998". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  4. ^ "Stabbing Westward - Chart History: Alternative Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved October 4, 2021.[dead link]
  5. ^ "Stabbing Westward - Chart History: Mainstream Rock Airplay". Billboard. Retrieved October 4, 2021.[dead link]
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