Something Corporate - I Want To Save You Lyrics Meaning

Standing on the edge of morning
Scent of sex and New Found Glory
Playing as she's pulling back her hair
She drives away, she's feeling worthless
Used again, but nothing's different
She'd stay the night but knows he doesn't care

(its early morning and she's just had sex with this guy who dosnt have any feelings for her. and she has such low self esteem that she'll sleep with any guy because she thinks that its such a compliment that any guy would WANT to sleep with her, not realizing that guys would sleep with just about anyone if they were semi hot. So afterwards she feels really cheap and easy and realizes that he doesn't care about her and won't miss her so she drives back home listening to a 'new found glory' albulm and she reflects on how many times she lets guys use her for sex andeach time she expects something but realizes that each time its the same as the last)

Home by three to deafening quiet
The porch light's off, guess they forgot it
She'd cry herself to sleep but she don't dare

(she comes home and her family have all gone to bed, and gtey didn't leave th eeporch light on for her because they forgot about her and she feels so depressed and worthless but if she cries herself to sleep she'll wake her family up)

And she wants to be a model
She wants to hear she's beautiful
She's beautiful

( she wants to be a model but because she has low self esteem she thinks that she could never really be a model because she's not beautiful, yet she yearns for someone to hold her and tell her she's beautiful)

I want to save you
I want to save you
I need you, save me too
I want to save you

(the chorus reminds me of a line out of breakfast at tiffanys when 'fred' tells his decorator that he is going to save holly but that by doing so holly will also be saving him. the writer recognizes that the girl is an emotional wreck and wants to save her and love her and that if she loves him back then shell also be saving him) (or it could also mean that the chorus is sung from the point of view of the girl)

Dressed by dawn and out the door
No lights, she memorized the floor
So she could leave without being detected
( she gets up early and leaves early without making a noise or turning on a light because she dosnt want to have to talk to her family)

She works till three, it's uniform
She dreams that he'll come by the store
She prays for days when boys mean she's protected
( she works, but its just one of those 'paying the bills' kid of job - untill she can get her big modeling break and she's dreams of hollywood romance flick endings where the guy comes to the store and makes some big gesture. She thinks that if she had a boyfriend she would be happy and safe)

And she wants someone to see her
She needs to hear she's beautiful
She's beautiful
(she wants a guy to notice her and fall in love with her because she needs to hear she's beautiful)

And she won't sleep
She won't sleep at all
( at night she thinks about how lonely she is and she can't sleep because she's so depressed)

I really identify with this song I feel like this girl that andrew's written about could in fact be me! its nice to know that at least one person out there understand me!