Safe And Sound Lyrics
Forever fades away
Maybe this is a rocket
Into space
I don't wanna be sad
I don't wanna be down
After all I won't let go
Until you're safe and sound
It's beauty in release
After all this sease
With you and me
I know you really tried
Maybe we could hold on through the night
'Cause I don't want to be lonely
I don't wanna be still
All our friends are waiting there
'Til you're safe and sound
It's beauty in release
No one left to please
But you and me
Feel like I could've held on
Feel like I could've let go
Feel like I could've held you
Feel like I could've changed you
Feel like I could've held you
Feel like I could've had you
Feel like I was a stranger
Feel like I was an angel
Feel like I was a zero
Feel like I was a hero
Feel like I could've trust you
Feel like I could've saved you
Feel like I could've held you
Feel like I could've moved you
Feel like healed you
Feel like I could've told you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
Feel like I could've loved you
this song was actually written by Sheryl about her ex-boyfriend, Owen Wilson. Its a very beautiful song. :D
I heard Safe and Sound the 2 times I watched 'White Oleander'. It was an amazing way to top off the movie! Safe and Sound is about trying to protect someone you love and who's been hurt and has 'given up.' The last part of which Sheryl murmurs...well, she just keeps saying 'feel like I could've..' It's kinda hinting at me that thy's loved one is "gone."
This is a really beautiful song I haven't heard for ages, but it just came up on my music.
I think this probably is about someone that's died, and how she's trying to cope with it. She feels slightly annoyed that the person gave up at the end, and guilty/helpless, but she's trying to come to terms with it all.
i wish i had had this song to sing to my da when he passed away. it says so much. and i miss my da so much too!
i love this song, it was so perfect in white oleander
i think that its about someone who is about to die and they are in the hospital with all their family and friends around and i think that there is actually two "voices because theres one thats saying its alright for me to die theres beauty in release and then theres the other one syaing i don't blame you for quitting i know you really tried so i think its about two people trying to make peace with eachother and death.
@freckles555 closest comment to the meaning I\'ve heard this far
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@blkshpnation - actually, not in the slightest. It’s about her relationship with Owen Wilson.
@blkshpnation - actually, not in the slightest. It’s about her relationship with Owen Wilson.
This song is actually, very gently devastating to me. It doesn't matter how good I am feeling, if I hear or think of the lyrics, it always brings me down a few notches. This song is certainly about a relationship, familial, romantic or platonic. As the song nears the end, it's indicative that the relationship is defintely is the past, "Feel like I could have loved you,", "saved you", "feel like I was a hero". Though the relationship as ended she's still invested in this person being "safe and sound". It's understandable, I have walked away from several friendships because it wasn't my job to safe another person, we as humans can only take another so far until they need to stand up and walk themselves.
Sheryl Crow performed this song at the concert for the firefighters and other heroes in the aftermath of the Sept 11 2001 attacks. There was still so much fear that the concert was broadcast from a studio in an undisclosed location. The song pierced my heart then and still does today. As much acclaim as Sheryl Crow has received in her career, I still think she is underrated.
This song is about witnessing a person you love slipping into madness. And ultimately losing them to physical or psychic (cationic) suicide. I don\'t know if it was written for the film, K-PAX, with that very theme, or was used. \n“If only you could hang on through the night” - the hours left unobserved, whether in hospital, or the watcher sleeps. \nThe witness empathizes|- I don’t blame you for quitting, a sense of beauty in release (pain is over, expectations gone). \nThe rest of the lyrics are a plea and bargain to the person, and talking to themselves (guilt). \nWhat\'s beautiful about this song is it applies to any type of relationship with a suicidal person, not just a lover. \nWhether Familial, parental, friend, or relationship dynamic the process is the same. “Why didn\'t I know? What could I have done/changed? Why can\'t I reach you? If only I loved you more”.... \n\nI\'ve traveled to the edge of madness myself in the past. I understand the lyrics on a profound level. The pressure, the pain, sadness, existential loneliness, and the exhaustion of fighting, over & over & over eventually sending one to the precipice. The tipping point goes, and a release happens. All sanity, rational thought, fall over the edge, and break down. \nNot all make their way back
i had never heard of this song until i saw it performed at the VMAs. i have to say i thought it was a beautiful performance and made me like sheryl crow a little more than i used to.