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Song title: Set Me Free

Running time: 4:07
music by: Velvet Revolver
words by: Scott Weiland
available on: Contraband [2004, Album]
Original version recorded and released by Velvet Revolver in 2003 on the 'The Hulk' movie soundtrack album.

Scott Weiland: Vocals
Duff McKagan: Bass
Slash: Guitar
Dave Kushner: Guitar
Matt Sorum: Drums

Published by Velvet Revolver Songs (ASCAP)
Produced by Josh Abraham and Velvet Revolver
Mixed by Andy Wallace at Enterprise Studios, CA
Recorded by Ryan Williams at NRG & Pulse Recording
Additional Vocal Engineering: Douglas Grean
Assistant Engineer: Brandon Belsky

   
   
Live Info
   
  This song was first performed live on June 19, 2003 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
   
   
Comments & Quotes
   

Produced by Nick Raskulinecsz for the 'The Hulk' movie and sountrack cd. Slash mentioned to Hard Rock Magazine (France) that a different mix of the song will be on the 'Contraband' album.

Duff: "Matt brought in the riff from “Set Me Free,” which he wrote on guitar." (Guitar World Bass Guitar, June/July 2004)

"On "Set Me Free," which was also featured in the soundtrack to "The Hulk," an angular lick segues into a blazing, decadent guitar line, creating images of a speeding, swerving car on a slick, windy road. The excitement of heightened reality hangs thick, but disaster could lurk around the next bend." (MTV Review, March 2004)

Slash : "Writing songs is really cool, but if you get inspired to do it for a really good movie, the outcome is more fulfilling. We got a certain energy from watching the film, and we wanted to do something that would be really appropriate for it. The Hulk is a very dramatic version of the same stuff that we all go through. All this bottled-up tension is what the song's about, so it's a pretty good marriage: the theme of the song and what The Hulk is all about."

Scott:"Ang Lee had a lot of intensity about the movie and his art form."

   
   
Lyrics
   

Set Me Free

You operate and motivate on synthetic fuel
You're Mother Nature and an atom bomb
As long as you're kept full of pretty bodies
Your little secret will be safe with me

Around again insane again it comes again and sets me free
So set me free, set me free 'cause I think you need my soul
Set me free, set me free

You're kept alive and polarized with one thing in mind
Metabolizin everything that you see
But now and then or a little later
Now I'm gonna take you down with me

Around again insane again she comes again and sets me free

So take me down, take me
Down, down, down, down

My freedom!

That's a wrap!