Lyrics to
Safe And Sound

Released by Carly Simon in 1974
From the Album: Hotcakes |

This version of Safe And Sound was released by Carly Simon in 1974.

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Strange times in Portland, Maine
Lobsters dancing on the dock
Switzerland’s been weird since they unplugged the clocks
Man and a woman living in Brooklyn Heights
Each convinced that the other is in the wrong
Last year the divorce rate tripled in Hong Kong
If through all the madness
We can stick together
We’re safe and sound
The world’s just inside out and upside down

Flash from Mexico…the tornadoes have all turned gay
Roman whores have quit to seek a better way
Dope has undermined the morale of the Buckingham Palace guards
Motorcycle gangs ride naked down Hollywood Boulevard
If through all the madness
We can stick together
We’re safe and sound
The whole world’s just turned inside out and upside down

Marahaj wants you to lead a pilgrimage to Tibet
New York women want me sounding off like a Suffragette
I know that each of us is alone in the end
But the trip still feels less dangerous when you’ve got a friend
If we stick together
You and me forever
We’re safe and sound
The world’s just turned inside out and upside down
The world’s just turned inside out and upside down


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Carly Simon has released many songs over the years besides Safe And Sound. Carly Simon released songs from 1971 to 2008 spanning across albums like Carly Simon, Anticipation, No Secrets, Hotcakes, Playing Possum, Another Passenger, Boys In The Trees, Spy, Come Upstairs, Torch, Hello Big Man, Spoiled Girl, Coming Around Again, Working Girl, Have You Seen Me Lately, My Romance, This Is My Life, Letters Never Sent, Film Noir, The Bedroom Tapes, Piglet's Big Movie, Christmas Is Almost Here Again, Moonlight Serenade, Into White, and This Kind Of Love. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carly Simon.

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About Lyrics and Safe And Sound by Carly Simon

The lyrics for Safe And Sound are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Carly Simon. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Safe And Sound have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Safe And Sound - Carly Simon and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Safe And Sound by Carly Simon in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Safe And Sound" means the words set to the music of Safe And Sound, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carly Simon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Safe And Sound and the lyrics to Safe And Sound are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carly Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Safe And Sound, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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