Saved By A Bell is about stargazing, but the chorus seems angry. What does it mean?
Apparently, as a child Mike used to like stargazing in his back garden. One possibility is that the line “Saved by a bell” refers to Mike’s career fortunes being turned around by the success of Tubular Bells. From that, we could infer that the “suffer in hell/but you were too blind to tell” couplet is a reference to the mental problems that his success exacerbated, and the fact that he was in a kind of denial about them until forced to confront them – and the fact that he did successfully confront them is covered by “But you made it through so well”. Another possibility: that Saved By A Bell is Mike having a rant at Richard Branson. Hearing it and reading the lyrics, it makes perfect sense. Particularly since the lyrics talk about constellations etc., but don’t include Taurus (Mike’s star-sign). Then of course the chorus is pretty overt: “Saved by a bell, suffer in hell”… Credit: Christophe Olivier, chr.olivier@hol.fr, Gareth Randall, Gareth_Randall@itv.co.uk, Alex Ringis.
Apparently, as a child Mike used to like stargazing in his back garden. One possibility is that the line “Saved by a bell” refers to Mike’s career fortunes being turned around by the success of Tubular Bells. From that, we could infer that the “suffer in hell/but you were too blind to tell” couplet is a reference to the mental problems that his success exacerbated, and the fact that he was in a kind of denial about them until forced to confront them – and the fact that he did successfully confront them is covered by “But you made it through so well”. Another possibility: that Saved By A Bell is Mike having a rant at Richard Branson. Hearing it and reading the lyrics, it makes perfect sense. Particularly since the lyrics talk about constellations etc., but don’t include Taurus (Mike’s star-sign). Then of course the chorus is pretty overt: “Saved by a bell, suffer in hell”… Credit: Christophe Olivier, chr.olivier@hol.fr, Gareth Randall, Gareth_Randall@itv.co.uk, Alex Ringis, who used t
