Savage songs - one by one
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This is my view and explenation of each of the Savage Garden songs that I have ever heard. All Savage Garden songs are written by D.Hayes/D.Jones. Darren Hayes sings all vocals without exception, but Daniel Jones has also contributed with his backingvocals but I can’t hear where. To the moon and back ~ I want you ~ Truly madly deeply ~ Tears of pearls ~ Universe ~ Carry on dancing ~ Violet ~ Break me shake me ~ A thousand words ~ Promises ~ Santa Monica ~ This side of me ~ Love can move you ~ Mine ~ I'll bet he was cool ~ All around me ~ Fire inside a man ~ Memories are designed to fade
Here are some fellows making it easier for you to know what the songs are like plus my judgement of each song Fabulous!!!! In every single way!!!
 It's a happy wackie song!  This tune rocks! It's way cool!  It's a sweet old love song! Title track of Savage's second album,uptempo,profound, hopeful and powerful. Every line of the song starts with 'I believe...', it's basically a song saying not to take the pressure of society, not believe beauty magazines, being satisfied with what you have. One of my my absolute faves and one of Darren's favourites too! My three fave lines are 'I believe your parents did the best job they new how to do', 'I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone' and last but not least 'I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul'....aaaaaawwwww...how sweet, the line that puzzles me is 'I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair, I believe the only ones to disagree are millionaires', Mr Hayes must be a millionair, what does he mean? maybe he doesn't feel like one. A song about the beginning of the end of a relationship. It's not too hard reading into the fact that it's about Darren and his ex-wife Coldy. According to Darren it's about him feeling he can't be her man, feeling inadequate because they aren't compatible anymore. A slow song with a clear sound of an acoustic guitar. This cheery tune is not very charachteristic Savage Garden but it's really cool just the same. People who are not Savage fans really like this song and it makes most everybody happy. The lyrics are profound as well which I have to admit is not too often that it happens. I don't know what it is with people but they think Darren says cannonball when he actually says animals.The video is quite funny too. This is the soundtrack of the movie "The Other Sister" starring Juliett Lewis and Diane Keaton. According to Darren the video for the song is the most fun video Savage have ever done by far.
Swoon swoon...what a sweet song.This song is a slow ballad about knowing you love somebody before you even know them, cannot be guessed just by reading the title...hahaha. I think it applies nicely to fans and their idols.There is a poem with the line "Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thee", now, do you think any of the guys have read that? Maybe. I am a bit tired of this song because it's everywhere and according to Darren it started out as a way of displaying to the recordcompany that they can write a slushy song like this. Very up-tempo and not a favourite of mine on the album, it's about short 'love'. It sounds like a lesser version of 'Tears of Pearls' with the uptempo beats, the high voice by Darren and so on. Can be very good if you wanna jump up and down but the weakest song on the album. Beautiful, profound, serene and it makes you feel good. It isn't the first time I'm using these words about a Savage song but it's true. According to Darren, this is a cheer-up song for himself, it's about how it's okay to 'crash and burn', you can fall sometimes and you'll pick yourself up. The melody is quite superb and the sound of the violins caress the ears, lovely, a very appropriate word for this . The perfect uptempo pop tune, it grabs you and keeps you. Even if you are a really calm person you can't help moving some part of your body along to this one. The song is about being absorbed by someone and feeling the magic all around them. Like "The Best Thing" this is about instant attraction, it's not much deeper than that but it is better than it's 'predecessor' in my opinion. One of Darren's favourite songs and with the knowledge of his break-up with his wife it's quite evident what this song is about. It reflects Darren and Colby's break-up, how hard it can be getting on with your life. The melody is one of the best on the "Affirmation" album, soft, gentle, complex and you guessed it, violins! Really really good! The depth of this song speaks volumes! The subject of domestic abuse has been investigated in this song. It looks at one story, of the woman who's trying to run away from her abusive husband, together with her children, in the middle of the night. The title is a reference to coffee machines and beds in a hotelroom. This is one of my absolute favourites on the Affirmation album and one of my fave Savage songs 'of all time'. I will have to admit though, I don't really know what it's about. Evidently it isn't a lovesong and thank god...sometimes you just can't stand another lovesong. I think it's about being free emotionally and spiritually though, it's sad and soft. Listen to it, you just have to! One of the reasons for getting this album. Darren's favourite Savage Garden song according to himself on a chat and it isn't a bad choice if you have to choose...hehehe. This song is absolutely beautiful, marvelous, fantastic...really the best Savage Garden song ever (that's my feeling at this precise moment anyway). It't slow yet energetic and it's sad and angry and bitter. Bittersweet is a word Darren likes to connect to the album and bittersweet is indeed this song, it's Darren dealing with the end of a love and being really bitter. Listen to me, you'll love it and you'll fly inside! This is a ballad kinda song about a girl who’s lonely basically and feels that she can’t trust anybody. It’s awesomely beautiful with all the violins in the back at some points mixed with the elegant and firm sound of the piano/keyboard and also includes some string arrangements. Darren’s vocals (lead and backing) are at their pinnacle. The lead vocals are so so strong. I just love this song and have from the very start. ”The moon song” was the song that made me really interested in Savage Garden
One of the less profound songs on the album. Also known as the chica-cherry-cola song. A Roxette reminiscing song that gets you singing along immediatly,well, the chorus anyway coz the verses are a bit difficult to sing along to at first. It’s smooth and sleek with the help of some technology. It is apparently about when you see somebody good-looking down the street maybe whom you don’t know but you just think ”WOW” An immensly sweet song about real love. The melody is very relaxing and soothing and Darren’s voice is extremely soothing as always but even more so than usual. The string guitar has been used here aswell. The lyrics are too cute and were written at a cafe when Darren was thinking of his wife...aaaawww =0) Darren got the frase ”truly madly deeply” from an English movie concerning a woman’s loss of her husband and she used that frase and it’s the most romantic film ever according to Darren so he wanted to use it in a song. "Truly Madly Deeply" is a slower version of a song Darren and Daniel wrote together called "Magical kisses". An up-beat song about games in relationships. Again, Darren’s voice is absolutely fantastic, it goes up and down during the whole song. Even though the melody is up-beat the song feels slightly moody mainly because of the lyrics. In the beginning of the chorus Darren’s voice sounds girlie which I like very much because it reminds me of somebody else who does that sometimes who’s very special to me.
Just the title sounds beautiful, doesn’t it? I think so. Universe is one of the slowest songs on the album if not the slowest. Darren describes it as a sexy song which you can understand listening to the lyrics. Advice: turn your lights off, if you don’t have shining stars on your cieling, get some, listen to universe with your headphones really loudly and you get such a good feeling it’s indescribeble. There is one part that I really like coz it could be me ”...I know you’re the nervous kind...with so much going on in your mind...”. Darren’s voice is sensual on this track (am I starting to get on your nerves about Darren’s voice? sorry...hehe) I initially disliked this song. Now I don’t understand why. It just grows on me more and more for each day. The song has a mysterious kinda feel to it which is Savage Garden purpose. It’s really cool and SG would like to think of it as their own sound. It has vampire connections ”...ultraviolet is a wicket spell...”, for the ones who are unaware of this, ultraviolet is sunlight.
Ultracool title, isn’t it? The word violet is uttered in this song but you can't hear it that well , it's in the backgroundvocals but Darren sings ”...the color inside your head...”, probably referring to violet. It’s a cool, funky song that really becomes the disco inside your head and I especially like the part that goes ”I’m ‘goanna’ crash into your world”, be my guest Darren!...hehehe. This is definetly a song that gets you up up up. It starts off slowly and calmly with a feeling of sorrow and disappointment accompanied by the easy sound of a bass and bursts into a frantic erruption of rage. Darren’s voice just knows no boundries! It’s a great song to listen to when you’re angry. How about the lyrics? ”won’t you break me shake me hate me take me over, when the madness stops then you will be alone...”, this song rocks hard and has a grunge-y kinda feel to it. The first song Darren and Daniel wrote together. This is also about games and empty words in a relationship. It’s not a slow song but I wouldn’t call it up-beat either, it’s hard to define. There is one part that I absolutely LOVE and that’s where Darren whispers ”...I’ll say the words outloud...”, it’s soooooooo cool!!!! the song gives you a feeling of freedom as the lyrics say "a thousand words will give the reason why...I don't need you...anymore..." This song has a lot of beautiful words, not a thousand though...hahaha. But that is I think one of the distinguishing parts of Savage Garden’s music, they or rather Darren as he is the lyricist uses beautiful words. A thousand words.
The Austrailian crowd did not get this song on their version of the album Savage Garden which is a shame. This song is very very elevating in the sence that it makes you happy hearing it even though it certainly isn’t about happy days and candy bars. It says you shouldn’t keep promises you can’t keep. BOY is Darren’s voice great on this track, it feels clean if that term can be understood. It has a wise message. If you listen carefully in the second verse you can hear the backingvocals of Mr Hayes going ‘ooh aah aah’ over and over, it’s pretty funny.
If beauty was a song it’d be Santa Monica. This soft, sad and sensetive tune is produced by Darren and Daniel. It’s a deep song about feeling out of place in a beautiful place. It’s also about how you can be anybody on the telephone line and Darren has said that the same goes for the internet (hey! where are we right now if not on-line??)...true...true or as the lyrics say ”...on the telephone line I am any height, I am any age I wanna be,I can be a cape crusador or space invador and you wouldn’t know the difference or would you?...”. It is a very sad song, at least I think so and it has such flair.
A b-side on the Truly madly deeply single. Another ballad about love. This one has a deeper and darker sound to it than Truly madle deeply for instance. It also carries the sound of violins. Advice: listen to it when you have a headache coz it calms you like you wouldn’t believe it. Listen to it while you look at the waves of a river (which I did!!!!) and feel the beats swimming along the waves of the water. My fave part is the verses where it goes ”...I want to move in time with you...I want to breath in rhyme with you...”...aaaaahhhhh...magic, take it from me, you don’t wanna miss this one. Up-beat cool song about how love can move you...hehehe...duh! well, it’s actually also about New York city which Darren has an obsession with, I know, sounds weird. But it’s a chic song and Darren’s voice is...um...seductive, maybe? Yeah, that’s probably it. My fave part is where he goes ”...it’s about the one thing...ah ah...it’s not about the kinda...”. It’s a cool song to listen to while you’re travelling, which vehicle is irrelevant, the point is that it is a moving song...=0)
Violins always make a popsong sound so beautiful! I don’t know if you can call ‘Mine’ a pop song but it is really really sad and beautiful. It is not on the European version of the album but it is on the Aussie version. I really can’t see why they have decided to remove it for the non-Austrailian release of their album. It’s about desperation. About wanting somebody really badly. ”...I wonder if you know the pain...to the want the one thing that you haven’t got...just a twist in time...if you could be mine...”, I loved it from the very start and it always makes me think of suicide for some reason. The middle eight is adoreble. I have it on tape that I got from my friend Dezzie who’s from Oz-land, THANX DEZ! Need i add that Darren’s voice portrays everything that excellence is?nah, I can say that his voice does sound like a desperate man. This is also a song that is neither up-beat nor a ‘slow-song’. It is one of Savage Garden’s most profound songs. That depth can be lost in the midst of all the funny lyrics. You HAVE to check the lyrics, it’s as simple as that! It’s about what a modern day Jesus could be like. What clothes he’d wear, how good he’d smell, how famous he’d be, how good-looking he’d be but then it all ends with ”...I bet my speeder bike he’s turn his back on all of that...” that’s the profound bit. There is also a referrence to Darren’s preoccupation, Star Wars...”I bet my Star Wars figurs (he’s got lots of them) he would be a movie star...”. It’s beginning is very nice and at ease.
This is too on the Oz version of their album. A way way cool saga about actress Meg Ryan whom Daniel is kinda obsessed with. It’s up-beat and makes you go WOW the first time you hear it. WOW out of amazement aswell as for the fact that it is indeed so cool. The rapping bit in the middle and the ending is just awesome. The lyrics really explains how people feel about their idols. ”...you’re the only good thing when all is wrong...”, that’s exactly how I feel about Savage Garden! I can’t emphasize enough that you should check the lyrics out. Coolness guys. Happy and cheery is what my first impression of this song was. It’s about a woman being the fire inside a man, simple innit? It’s sweet. I like it, that’s simple too, huh? It has some cool water drip kinda sounds (probably made with a keyboard) in the beginning. There is a sincerity in Darren’s voice that I really really really like. I could imagine that he thinks of his wife when he sings it and that it is written for her. I have only heard it on the internet so I haven’t heard it with a good sound quality.
Isn't it true, memories are designed to fade, although some just aren't. This is a sad song, no doubt. I guess this is also about desperate love. About somebody being so obsessed by someone else that you let them play with you, I think. At least parts of the song indicates that like "I'd never let you down when you're in a fix...I run when you call and that's my weakness baby...". I quote a Woody Allen movie "of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest!". This song had to grow on me, but now I really really like it. It's a track from the 'To the moon and back' single and I think they've used female backingvocals on it, either that or Darren's voice is too flexible.
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A sad tale told by the Savages! 
Listen carefully to the words!
