and earned plenty of airplay on MTV with a glossy video that featured the band jet-setting around the atmospheric locale of Sri Lanka.Song: Save a Prayer Artist: Duran Duran r - rest / - slide up Intro: D F Bb G F G:- D:-7-5-4-3-3-3-4-5-5-3-3- A:-5-3-2-1-1/- E:- D F Bb G C G:- D:-7-5-4-3-3- A:-5-3-2-1-1-0-0-3-3-4- E:-3-3- Verse: You saw me standing by the.
The song is a prayer for the protection of children everywhere. This song proved they werent just another flash in the pan New Romantic band, they were here to stay, and were about to conquer the world. I prayed for the Lord to use me, and within an hour I had the music and words written on a scrap of paper from my purse. Save a Prayer was one of the songs that made people stand up and take notice of Duran Duran. The result was a stylish mood-piece that became a number two hit in the U.K. The idea for a song for the page came to me as my husband and I were on a bus trip with our senior citizen group from church. I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. Duran Duran's recording places an emphasis on Nick Rhodes' swirling, minimalist synth lines and Simon LeBon's pained vocals as the rhythm section holds down a steady but subdued beat, with Andy Taylor adding a few searing bursts of electric guitar during the chorus. Save me, O God For the waters are come in unto my soul. The lyrics revolve around a chance meeting between two people that flares into a love affair but ends all too soon: "Some people call it a one night stand/But we can call it paradise/Don't say a prayer for me now/Save it 'til the morning after." The music maintains the stormily romantic quality of the lyric by combining meditative verses with an aching chorus that swells and ebbs in a way that perfectly captures the song's heartbreak. One of the finest, perhaps the finest, was "Save a Prayer," a lilting epic from Rio that has a special place in the heart of every Duran Duran fanatic. but they were also capable of making lush ballads guaranteed to make their fan base swoon. Dance-friendly items like "Rio" and "Hungry Like The Wolf" gave Duran Duran their chart breakthrough in the U.S.