Safe and Sound Lyric Interpretation

I remember tears streaming down your face when I said I'll never let you go

The tears, symbolizing sorrow, come from the fact that the narrator of the sing is promising something to someone who knows she cannot keep that promise, but it isn't her fault, but also wishes that could happen.

When all those shadows almost killed your light

Taylor has referenced shade in multiple songs: "Shade never made any body less gay," -"You Need to Calm Down" (With the double meaning of gay as in happy, bright, and homosexual), "Lived in the shade you were throwing 'till all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone" -"I Forgot That You Existed". Basically, to Taylor, "light" is happiness. So, she is saying that the one she sings to is losing happiness.

I remember you said don't leave me here alone

But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight

Neither of the two want to be left by themselves, but none of the above lyrics will matter if even one of them die.

Just close your eyes, the sun is going down

The sun goes down, meaning the day is done, meaning a long day (life) is finally laid to rest.

You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now

No one can hurt them if they are dead, so they think this death brings more relief than sorrow, a seemingly ethereal tragedy.

Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound

Wait, the sun went down, and they are calling morning light? Why? Well, the "morning light" they reference is a different light, a morning light, the light of the next day, the day in heaven, which is where they will be when they wake.

Don't you dare look out your window, darling everything's on fire

They are trying to escape reality because it's so cruel to them.

The war outside our door keeps raging on.

No one wants to stop fighting, even though it's pointless.

Hold onto this lullaby even when the music's gone, gone

Remember your last minutes on earth, the last minutes you lived, the last minutes in which this song was sung. Soon it will all be gone, gone. You have to imagine it, remember something that isn't there anymore.

Just close your eyes, the sun is going down

You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now

Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound

Just close your eyes, you'll be alright

Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound

Close your eyes-- try to ignore all the bad things happening, because it won't matter when you are safe and sound in heaven.