“Savin' Me” by Nickelback

Nickelback pulled "Savin' Me" off their fifth album, All the Right Reasons, as its fourth single, and it's the Canadian band in full power-ballad mode: slow-building verses, a chorus that lands like a wrecking ball and a vocal pleading for rescue. Chad Kroeger wrote the words, and the music came from the whole band, Kroeger with Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and Daniel Adair. The ledge the singer stands on has a literary pedigree, too, a nod to the eighteenth chapter of Dante's Inferno.

The video went over big and remains one of their best known, and when the song came back into the set on the Feed the Machine Tour, an edited cut played on the big screen, the only video in the whole show. It reached number 2 in Canada and 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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