http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9M6Shva5w
My older brother Robin showed me this link. I do not think I have heard a song in such a long time that moved me as much as this. Especially from a mainstream artist. I personally feel that now a days music has become so commercialized, and has lost it's culture. It's essence so to say. This is a song that I actually had to listen to over and over again, and read the lyrics over and over. The story, the creativity, the expression that Justin Nozuka has used in a song coming from a mans point of view is EXTRAORDINARY. Don't get me wrong. I love COMMERCIALIZED HIP HOP, I love the beats, the hooks, all the computerized cool stuff they mix in, but what I really would like to see is meaning and artists express themselves like they used to back in the day. Justin, the song writer took something that is HUSHED upon in communities all over the world, and overlooked and wrote a song about it.......that blows me away...and this is why.
Most of us all know who Rhianna is; a young female r&b artist who endured a rank beating from her then boyfriend Chris Brown, and it was blown up all over the media. We all know how bad it looked.
Now do you think a contempary HUGE MAINSTREAM ARTIST would actually use her fame to express all she endured? That just blows me away, that music is an art...an expression and have we yet to hear something from Rhianna that isn't INDIRECTLY talking about what happened between her and Chris Brown. I am sure her record label had something to do about that, that maybe it would wreck her imagine. WHO KNOWS!
I was in a bad abusive relationship, and I don't want to go to in depth about it. But funny how Justin writes, "She said, Save Him, Save Him" which is dead on because that is a mentality that a lot of battered woman have. They are more worried about fixing the man, instead of their broken selves.
My husband asks, "Why you always have to go back to that?!?!...."Why do you have to write about it or talk about"
Hmmmm...well who knows husband my dear. It may be the way I deal with it to talk about it. It may be good for me to share my words, as a SURVIOR of domestic abuse.
I have a voice, I will use it. If someone hears it, and if it is able to really SPEAK to someone...my story that is. Then I am happy that maybe in some sort of small way that I have helped someone, or educated someone that if you are a victim of domestic abuse, you are not alone and it is NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED ABOUT, OR BE QUIETED BY ANYONE...NOT EVEN FROM YOURSELF.
Here are the lyrics to the song, take a good listen....
Save Him lyrics
Justin Nozuka
Songwriters: Nozuka, Justin;
Yeah, she loves him more, he loves her more
Seems like they never let each other go
Laughing and kissing, it's a match made in Heaven
Behind the rings on their fingers
Imprints the ink deep in the inner
That have stained their souls together now
Staying soul mates forever now
Seems like they've made it to the other side
Where the grass is greener
And the sky is always blue
And it goes on forever and ever
But there is only room for two
Deep at night, I'm awakened from my dreams
Next door, yelling, cries, mercy, she is begging, "Please
Don't end my life, you're all I need"
And a, "Darling, I would never leave, never leave"
And then she prayed on her knees
She said "Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on"
Darker clouds cover her paradise
She covers her eyes and hides
Behind enemy lines
And she walks through the night
With her child in her arms
She's come back, hostage
You see twenty years ago
When she was just ten years old
Lost in imagination, she was left alone
And Pops had nothing to let his anger on
Oh, he beat her cold, yes he did
He beat her cold
She used to pray on her knees
She said "Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on"
Deep at night, I'm awaken from my dreams
Next door, yelling, cries, mercy, she's begging, "Please"
Begging, "Please," begging, "Please"
"Get up, get up," he brings her to her feet
And smacks her down
'Till she falls to the ground
Oh, and over and over again
He brings her to her feet 'til she can no longer stand
Oh, and still the beating never ends
On and on and on he goes, until he brings out a gun
And says to her, "Stop crying and bring me my son"
She cries harder and harder
He cries harder and harder
She says, "Baby, please don't, don't do this"
Oh, two shots to her chest and a blow to his own head
Oh, she quickly loses breath and then rushes to the bed
And baby cries, he cries his eyes out
"Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on
Save him, save him from the hand that he beats me on"
She loves him more, he loves her more
Seems like they never let each other go
Laughing and kissing, it's a match made in Heaven
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