Safe And Sound Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Enjoythe7 

Cover art for Safe And Sound lyrics by Sheryl Crow

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.

My Interpretation