The lyrics revolve around a chance meeting between two people that flares into a love affair but ends all too soon: "Some people call it a one night stand/But we can call it paradise/Don't say a prayer for me now/Save it 'til the morning after." The music maintains the stormily romantic quality of the lyric by combining meditative verses with an aching chorus that swells and ebbs in a way that perfectly captures the song's heartbreak. One of the finest, perhaps the finest, was "Save a Prayer," a lilting epic from Rio that has a special place in the heart of every Duran Duran fanatic. but they were also capable of making lush ballads guaranteed to make their fan base swoon. Guarisco at All Music Guide said:ĭance-friendly items like "Rio" and "Hungry Like The Wolf" gave Duran Duran their chart breakthrough in the U.S.
"Save A Prayer" begins with a somewhat eerie synthesizer riff, which plays in the background throughout the song.Īccording to Le Bon, the song's chorus structure is based on Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" and the lyrics as being contrary to the then-popular New Romantic movement by being "realistic, and not romantic" and "for seeing things as they really are." He sums up "Save A Prayer" as "It's definitely a freedom song but like a kinda nobody owns anybody kinda song."Ĭover art for the single was designed by Assorted iMages, which features a shadow being.ĭonald A. However, a special US single version was released in January 1985 and reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was not originally issued as a single in the United States, although the video was very popular on MTV. The song became Duran Duran's biggest hit to date (at the time) in the UK Singles Chart, reaching #2, held out of the top spot by Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger".
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