Save Tonight

"Save Tonight" is a rock single written by Eagle-Eye Cherry for his 1997 debut album Desireless. The song is the album's opening track, and was released as its first single, reaching #3 in Ireland, #5 in the USA, #6 in the UK and #2 in Cherry's native Sweden. It is considered to be his signature song. It was featured on the video games Karaoke Revolution and American Idol and was featured in the movie A Lot Like Love. Music video - - - - The monochrome video for the song features Cherry playing different characters and seeing the story from different perspectives. At first, he is a man getting ready for a date by buying some roses and a bottle of wine at a deli. He then tells the butcher "goodbye" and the camera reveals that the butcher is in fact Cherry himself. A robber wearing a ski mask then comes along and takes the money out of the cash register. As he leaves, however, he is run over by a van, and as bystanders help him up, he is revealed to be Cherry, as is the driver in the van. Another Cherry is seen playing a guitar and another is a bum on the street. The "first" Cherry appears once again at the end of the video, apparently walking to his date's place. 1998 Chart Peak position ____________________ Austrian Singles Chart - #17 Belgian Singles Chart - # 9 Dutch Mega Singles Top 100 - # 9 French Singles Chart - # 11 German Singles Chart - # 18 Irish Singles Chart - #3 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Charts - # 35 Norwegian Singles Chart - # 9 Swedish Top 100 Singles - # 2 Swiss Singles Chart - # 7 UK Top 75 Singles - # 6 U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 - # 3 U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks - # 8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 - # 5 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream - # 1 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks - # 1 U.S. Billboard Adult Recurrents - # 1 1999 - End of year chart Position U.S. Billboard Hot 100 - #22

[Verse 1] Go on and close the curtains 'Cause all we need is candlelight You and me and a bottle of wine Going to hold you tonight, uh yeah [Pre-Chorus] Well we know I'm going away And how I wish, I wish it weren't so So take this wine and drink with me Let's delay our misery [Chorus] Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone [Verse 2] There's a log on the fire And it burns like me for you Tomorrow comes with one desire To take me away, oh it's true [Pre-Chorus] It ain't easy to say goodbye Darling please don't start to cry 'Cause girl you know I've got to go, oh Lord I wish it wasn't so [Chorus] Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone [Bridge] Tomorrow comes to take me away I wish that I, that I could stay Girl you know I've got to go, oh Lord I wish it wasn't so [Chorus] Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone [Chorus] Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone Save tonight And fight the break of dawn Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone [Outro] Tomorrow I'll be gone Tomorrow I'll be gone Tomorrow I'll be gone Tomorrow I'll be gone Save tonight Save tonight Save tonight Save tonight Oh, that's right Save tonight