Queen were a sensational band. There live concerts were part drama, part opera, part circus. Brain May's guitar playing was one of the world wonders. If you ever made it to a concert you would not go away disappointed. Many think that Queens wonder years were in the late 1970's and early 1980's. this is where some people think Queen was at their peak. Nothing could stop them. The Dual Live Aid concerts were a showpiece of what they could do and were memorable. On Saturday 13th July 1985 Queen galvanised the LiveAid concert in London's Wembley stadium with some of their greatest hits, in which lead-singer Freddie Mercury at times led the entire crowd of 72,000 in thundering unison refrains. In their 20 minute set the band opened with "Bohemian Rhapsody" and closed with "We Are the Champions". They extensively rehearsed their performance at London's Prior to their taking the stage, Queen's sound engineer covertly switched out the that had been installed on the venue's sound system so the performance would be louder than the others. Queen's performance on that day has since been voted by more than 60 artists, journalists and music industry executives as the greatest live performance in the history of rock music. Mercury and fellow band member Brian May later sang the first song of the three-part Wembley event finale, "Is This The World We Created...?".
"Save Me" written in the early 1980's is one of Queen's anthems, haunting lyrics, piano and pure rock and roll place this song in the best of the queen songs.
It started off so well
They said we made a perfect pair
I clothed myself in your glory and your love
How I loved you,
How I cried.....
The years of care and loyalty
Were nothing but a sham it seems
The years belie we lived a lie
"I'll love you 'til I die"
Save me Save me Save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me Save me Oh...
I'm naked and I'm far from home
The slate will soon be clean
I'll erase the memories,
To start again with somebody new
Was it all wasted
All that love?.....
I hang my head and I advertise
A soul for sale or rent
I have no heart, I'm cold inside
I have no real intent
Save me Save me Save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me Save me Oh...
I'm naked and I'm far from home
Each night I cry, I still believe the lie
I'll love you 'til I die
The song "Save Me" lends it's lyrics to a number of heartbreaks. Bereavement, broken relationships. It is a philosophical song at it's core. This song was one that Freddy Mercury invited people to put there own meaning to. It seems that the figure in the song has devoted themselves to years of loyalty and care in a relationship and has found out that it was all a sham. The relationship now over, the person in the song has to go on with life with nothing but memories to live with, while they get on with the art of living. This content of the song "Save Me" is true for many. A broken relationship and the feeling of betrayal and rejection. "I'm naked and I'm far from home" is a line in the lyrics. this could so fit with Jesus' story of the prodigal son in Luke 15.
Luke 15:11-32 - 11 "Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.
15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’
20 So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate.24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ 28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
"I'm Naked and I'm far from Home" is the story here. "Save Me" is the inward cry of a person who feels this in an acute way, just like in Jesus' story of the man with two sons. You can almost hear the cry. "Save Me" is the cry that asks is there anyone who will rescue. this is the literal meaning of "Salvation" - Rescue. William Booth the General of the Salvation army had a vision of people perishing in the sea with no -one to rescue them. This vision was to put Booth on the right tracks to rescue thousands of perishing souls on the streets of London. "Save Me" is the cry of the person that needs God to bend down and come to the rescue. Rescue from themselves, their circumstances, there own problems, perhaps of their own making. It's a cry for help in the real sense of the word. A prayer if you like.
In the Book of Acts Peter and John are before the Sanhedrin - The Leading Council of Jewish Elders. they are accused of speaking and healing in the name of Jesus and are to be dealt with severely. A lame man has been healed by the gate beautiful at the entrance of the temple and Peter and John were in involved and have been asked by what means or power has this happened they reply and in their reply they declare that rescue and wholeness (This is the meaning of the word "Salvation") can not be found in anyone else except Jesus. Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."
"I'm Naked and I'm far from Home - SAVE ME" This is a prayer for help. The outcome of prayers in the bible of such magnitude is that God hears them. There are countless examples of people praying in the Bible and God answering - Coming to their rescue. It's not just confined to the bible either. If this is how you are feeling today, you are only a prayer away from a living and loving God who can Save and can save to the uttermost.
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