Once in a dream I was falling in love with someone who
Looked a lot like you, but just as our lips were starting to kiss,
I woke up on the floor;
It's one of those nights for standing around and talking
To people that I hardly know, and incoming tone came up
On my phone, it was an SMS, and it said;
"Save me, I think I've had enough of this,
Save me, you are the one who can
Save me, take me away from here;"
I look in the room, there's nobody there,
And then I saw her with the long blonde hair,
I could not believe the girl in my dream,
Was waiting at the door, and she said;
"Save me, I think I've had enough of this,
Save me, you are the one who can
Save me, take me away from here;"
Oh, cue a hundred days and nights of special sensuality,
Since lady luck came knocking on my door;
An incoming tone is up on my phone, another SMS,
And it said;
"Save me, I think I'm getting out of it,
Save me, no doubt about it,
Save me, let's get away from here;"
"Save me, save me, save me, save me, let's get away from here,
Take me away from here,
Let's get away from here."
"Well, I've certainly noticed - living with two teenagers in my family and a boy of eleven - the impact that mobile phones have had on life - and particularly the text messaging services, the SMS, which is a complete undercurrent of information and communication which is unparalleled in history. And I think it's absolutely fantastic. It's an amazing way of keeping in touch with people - as, obviously, e-mail is - so I've become technically efficient, thankfully, finally!, and I've just decided to use some of the current phrases. Like in 'Guilty Secret' we have 'textual delight' and, in 'Save Me', we have a situation... this is a gentle little melody that jumped up from nowhere in particular 'Once in a dream I was falling in love' and this took quite a while to figure out... So, he's had this dream about this beautiful girl and he wakes up and he's on the floor and... it was just a dream. But then he's at a party and he gets an SMS up on his phone that says 'Help...save me! I've had enough of this'. I'm sure we all have been to functions where you stand there feeling incredibly uncomfortable, thinking 'Oh, dear, who are these people? I have nothing in common with them. I feel as if I've strayed into somebody else's nightmare. I'm not even dressed for this!'. And imagine, then, an SMS coming up on your phone saying 'Help! I feel exactly the same as you' - and you look around the room and there, standing at the door, is the same girl that was in your dream. What kind of a coincidence is this?! So, that's what that's about. It's a bit of fun - and note the ending, which is, I suppose, and it has been suggested... fairly kind of Beatle-y!"
