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. According 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.' (Source).Ĭover art for the single was designed by Assorted iMages, which features the shadow of John Taylor, which was a flipped image taken from a still frame of the first few seconds of the music video.ĭonald A. The lyrics are about a chance meeting between two people that turns into a one-night stand. Simon Le Bon wrote the lyrics to the song while the band was on tour. It opens with an arpeggiated delay-treated synthesizer riff (created on a Roland SH-2), which plays in the background throughout the song. The verses of the song are in D minor, while the chorus is in B minor. The song began with Andy Taylor and Nick Rhodes picking out chords together, and was then built around the sequencer track.

'Save A Prayer' begins with a somewhat eerie synthesizer riff, which plays in the background throughout the song.

Duran duran save a prayer for me now