Save Me

Skillet frontman John Cooper says this dark track is about "the fact that intimacy is really hard." He told Cryptic Rock: "We all want to be known and we all want to know someone in an intimate way, but what we're not always prepared for is that intimacy hurts."

Cooper wrote the chorus melody first and almost decided to reserve the song for his heavy metal side project, Fight the Fury, thinking it was too ultra-metal for Skillet. When he decided to include it on Victorious, he shifted the tone towards sad and romantic to make it more fitting for the Christian rock band, but didn't want to lose its original vibe. "When we started recording it and working on the parts, I was like, you know what? It can be sad and Metal at the same time," he explained.

To get the heavy sound he wanted, Cooper took inspiration from the metal band Five Finger Death Punch: "I literally thought, 'If this was a Five Finger chorus, what would they do on the drums?' I know it doesn't sound like Five Finger it sounds like Skillet, but for a musician if they really picked apart the guitar and the drum parts and the chorus, you can hear that being a Death Punch chorus with his voice - if Ivan [Moody] was singing it."