Save Me

## Song by Machine Gun Kelly featuring M. Shadows and Synyster Gates

### **Songwriter(s)**

Matthew Charles Sanders, Brian Haner Jr., Brinton Ewart, Colson Baker, Rami Eadeh

### **Producer(s)**

Brinton Ewart, Rami Beatz

"**Save Me**" is the lead track from Machine Gun Kelly's debut studio album, *Lace Up* (2012). It features vocals from M. Shadows and Synyster Gates, members of the American heavy metal band, Avenged Sevenfold. MGK talks about the experiences he struggled with in the place he grew up in, hoping that one day something would save him.

## Background

He told Alternative Press how the collaboration came together:

> "We had a mutual friend, and they left me tickets for a show. They saw me in the mosh pit during 'Unholy Confessions,' and they gave me a shout out. Later they invited me to a penthouse party at the Palms; we were drinking and laughing, and the sun came up. It was just a good vibe. And I told them about this track I wanted them to be on. So Slim and I flew out to California, and we drove down to Matt's house. I actually recorded Matt's vocals myself. It was probably the most ear-piercingly loud thing I've ever heard, when he did that scream."
>
>

According to *Noisecreep*, he said about the track, "That was one of my proudest moments yet. I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body. I remember being in the room with them when they recorded the intro and thinking to myself how good it sounded without any of the production even being on it yet. It gave me goosebumps."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Instrumental]

[Verse: Machine Gun Kelly]

Uh, from the bottom of the ash I rose

Yeah, to the top I go

Where I'm from its cold

But I don't need this coat (Nah)

Keep my sleeves rolled

Got my city's area code on my shoulder (Whattup)

216 forever in my soul

Swear to God every single night its gets colder

No heat so we all around that stove

Like "fuck this broke shit," petty ass hustlin'

Couldn't even sell one zone

Slim still workin' at the store and the only time we ever get to eat is when he brings something home

Everydays dark here

Prayin' for a rainbow to lead us to that pot of gold

And exchange those nights on a concrete floor

For a bottle of Rose to pop that bitch off like we suppose to

Never gave a fuck if we went gold

I just wanna be able to say that "I made it"

'Cause real EST mufuckas don't fold

Real EST mufuckas don't break up, real family grows old

Real EST mufuckers representin' for the city where they came even when they gone

And fuck this throne, ain't no kings

No pretty princess, ain't no queen

No fairy tale endings on the eastside

Just these broken homes and those screams

Broken bones underneath these jeans

Broken bricks cover up my streets

Fiends outside trying to get they fix

While my first born in here trying to get sleep

Muthafuck this rap shit

Try buryin' your boy six feet, let me show you 'bout real

Try telling me that you can't make it up out the city 26 dollars to multi-mills

Face inside of the XXL

Then try coming back to the eastside still

Well bitch I did, and it's still the kid

Labeled a Bad Boy before this deal

What up Slim, Dub, Xplo, Dre, Swirv, Ash, my boy BK

And everybody from the beginning that bled with me knowing I would be here one day

So as I roll through all the hoods that raised me

Lookin' at the house of pain

I'ma runaway from the ones that pay me

Hopin' I'll stay the same

[Outro: M. Shadows]

Can't you save me?

Can't you save me?

Can't you save me?

Can't you save me?

[Guitar Solo: Synyster Gates]

## References

1. ↑ "Save Me" | Genius Lyrics
2. ↑ "Machine Gun Kelly Talks Collaborating with M. Shadows & Synyster Gates". *Avenged Sevenfold*. February 22, 2017.
3. ↑ Ramirez, Carlos (February 27, 2013). "Machine Gun Kelly: Rapper Reveals Why He's So Influenced by Metal and Punk Music". *Noisecreep*. Retrieved May 12, 2022.