He soon spots a business woman about to enter her car, and sees her timer rapidly dwindles much faster than it should, dropping from the millions to the single digits in a matter of seconds.
He also sees that he cannot see the timer above his own head. She has numbers above her head and in front of her pregnant stomach. Shortly afterwards, he sees a young woman sitting down and peeling an orange. He is baffled by the meaning of the timers until he sees an elderly woman being brought out on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance: when the timer above her head reaches zero, she dies. To everyone else, he appears to be crazy.
It was also the title theme for the TV series Surgery Saved My Life.īand members Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake in the music video for "Savin' Me".Įventually, the viewer sees that the second man sees timers (counting in seconds) with glowing numbers counting down above the heads of everyone around him. The song was featured in the closing credits to the film The Condemned as well as in the commercials for the third season of Battlestar Galactica and the second season of Prison Break. The verse " I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story" is a reference to the eighteenth chapter of Dante Alighieri's poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. When the song returned to the band's live setlist during their Feed the Machine Tour an edited version of the video, without the parts showing the band, was played on the big screen during the performance, being the only song with a music video during their live performances. The music video was very well received and it is among their most well known videos. The song reached number two on the Canadian Singles Chart, became another top-10 hit for the band in New Zealand, peaking at number nine, and peaked at number 19 on the U.S. It was released as the third major single from their fifth studio album, All the Right Reasons (2005). " Savin' Me" is a song written and performed by Canadian band Nickelback. Mountainview (Abbotsford, British Columbia)