Talk:Savin' Me

message: I think the number system in the song is arbitrary. I have many reasons to believe this.
# If the numbers are 'seconds left to live', how does the last woman he saves have so many dropping so suddenly to so few? 
# Perhaps this could justify number one, but why are some peoples' number of seconds going up?
If the assumption that they count in seconds is correct, then the pregnant woman in the video has approximately 10 months to live, while the baby has a year and a half. Also, the life expectancies of the other people around him are all around that same length of numbers, which means that either they're all going to die in a relatively short time (less than 10 years, which is extremely improbable given the age of them), or the assumption that it's the number of seconds is incorrect. 
The only part of the number system that's reasonably understandable to me at this point is the decimal point; the two digits afterwards are *always* capped off at 30, which makes me want to think that the system isn't entirely arbitrary. But perhaps they did that to certain parts of it to throw people off who catch things like this, eh? I want to say they're milliseconds, but I'm probably wrong. 
Any thoughts?
well, considering that when the woman nearly got crushed her number jumped downward, perhaps the decisions we make change the number? like eating a salad rather then a burger would add 100K?? its a thought. Pellaken 23:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number system? 

message: The counters above each person's head in this video is simply the number of seconds they have left to live.
For example;
-The pregnant woman: 21,243,543.00 = over 40 years
-Her unborn baby: 36,873,267.00 = a little over 70 years
Apparently, the concept is that this number can change depending on your choices and actions.  In a few instances the counter is actually going up.  One example is the man on a bicycle.  The main character's counter also seems to be going up at the end of the video.
Great concept.  Well done.
Dude, it is the amount of minutes, rather than seconds, the people have to live. If it is seconds, then the unborn baby will not live to see his second birthday. Arbiteroftruth 04:21, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By my calculation, mother dies in childbirth if it's seconds. Baby lives until something like 2-3 years old. FxChiP 07:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The baby's count is 42,865,565.30 or so.  FxChiP 07:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Countdown 

message: I've searched unsuccessfully online for the name of the actor who portrays the main character in the music video. If anyone knows his name, perhaps it should be included in this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.0.214 (talk) 04:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The guy at the beginning looks EXACTLY like Dave Navarro 
Oemenia (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 21:06, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protagonist 

message: The song is too light and so not dark to be considered an alt.metal song. I can't see any heaviness on it. So I've changed the genre, because it's closer to alt-rock than to alt-metal.
If anyone disagrees and considers the song alt.metal-heavy, please let's discuss.
Robfbms (talk) 00:51, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alt.metal? 

message: I don't know how much this is editorialization, so I hope my removal is appreciated. The line "pulls him back just in the nick(elback) of time" in the Music Video description is gold, though. I'm not sure how to link to specific versions of pages, but it's the July 12, 2021 edit of the page by an anonymous user. —FrostyBeep 17:24, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Humorous addition