Hawksley Workman Songs - Safe and Sound Lyrics

Hawksley Workman - Safe and Sound

Hawksley Workman - Safe and Sound Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: For Him And The Girls
Released: 1999

Safe and Sound Lyrics

You slept through the last small town,
I'll wake you up when the next one comes around.
Your eyes are closed, like you truly believe
You're Safe and Sound with me

No looking back, no turning into salt.
The city was crumbling but, baby, we're not to fault.
When things got too rough, I promised you we'd leave.
You're safe and sound with me.

You're safe and sound with me,
Just like you always will, just like you always will be.

The wipers clear the windshield of the rain.
My shirt sleeve dries your eyes the very same.
We fit together like the ignition and the key.
You're safe and sound with me.

You're safe and sound with me,
Just like you always will, just like you always will be.

You're safe and sound with me,
Just like you always will, just like you always will be.

The glove box light shines bright enough to see.
You read the map like you were reading poetry.
And it just might take you forever to see,
That you're safe and sound with me.

Writer/s: CORRIGAN, RYAN MATTHEW
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
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Safe and Sound Song Chart

"Safe and Sound" is the tenth track on Hawksley Workman's debut album, For Him and the Girls. Workman wrote about the song on his website: "One night, i quietly wrote, what i wanted to be, the quintessential driving song… it's turned into a rather popular song for weddings…"

In 2014 when we asked Hawksley how he feels about this, he replied: "It's a big life event that you want to celebrate and it's kind of exciting for me that that song has that life."

Workman wrote the song in 1998 on a piano in the apartment he lived in with his then girlfriend. "I had imagined this song as traveling with her at the time and she was asleep," Hawksley told us. "So I guess the images were all there waiting to be plucked."

He continued, "It's interesting that it does come across as a wedding song because in my late teens, I was very pious. So I had a lot of biblical imagery floating around back then. My first few records are loaded with it."

Workman's idea about "Safe and Sound" being about traveling is evident in the first verse:

You slept through the last small town
I'll wake you up when the next one comes around
Your eyes are closed like you truly believe
You're safe and sound with me