safe and sound first reaction to lyrics
TRANSCRIPT
I remember tears streaming down your faceWhen I said, "I'll never let you go"When all those shadows almost killed your lightI remember you said, "Don't leave me here alone"But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight
Just close your eyesThe sun is going downYou'll be alrightNo one can hurt you nowCome morning lightYou and I'll be safe and sound
Don't you dare look out your window, darling,Everything's on fireThe war outside our door keeps raging onHold on to this lullabyEven when music's goneGone
The fact that Taylor is outside may be referring to the ‘war’ – always lonely so where is everyone else?
Feeling of loss, sadness.
Referring to the lullaby that is used in The Hunger Games films
Isolation
Protective over something/someone
Talking about the film (Rue dying)
Starts song on a personal level
Overwhelming darkness killed someone's personality (?)
Metaphor for something killing off something/someone beautiful/ everything is slowly dying?
Hold on to something personal even when this personal song has finished
Just close your eyesThe sun is going down
You'll be alrightNo one can hurt you now
Come morning lightYou and I'll be safe and sound
Just close your eyesYou'll be alright
Come morning light,You and I'll be safe and sound...
Why the video is mostly in a low key lighting?
Contrast of the video being half filmed in a cemetery and the rest in a house with the fire on
Once the darkness has passed everything will be okay and “safe”
Who/what was trying to hurt the person Taylor is referring to?