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Capital Cities – Safe and Sound Lyrics 8 years ago
@[dumbdimb:9074] I think the military thing is just an allegory or picture of what they are saying...the song is not necessarily (and literally) about the military.

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Capital Cities – Safe and Sound Lyrics 8 years ago
It totally does have spiritual inferences. He could be speaking to a girl or a friend or a family member, but the story arc is simply that they will be safe and sound because there is a higher power at work and he knows this. It is not putting a square peg into a round hole because the spiritual is simply part of who we are as human beings. Unless you are a naturalist. Or a deist.

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