You And I'll Be Safe And Sound. ~ Off The Record

Over Christmas break I caved in and read The Hunger Game series by Suzanne Collins. Once I started, I couldn't put them down. I read all three in a 6 day period and have watched the trailer for the new movie multiple times. Call me a bandwagon jumper, that is fine by me but I love the series now that I took the time to read it!

As I mentioned above, there is a movie coming out (March 23rd) based on the first book. Taylor Swift did a collaborative effort with the group The Civil Wars for a track on the official soundtrack. They released the song Safe and Sound the day after Christmas and as of yet, it is one of the only songs off of the soundtrack to be released. While it is not Taylor's typical style, it is pretty killer in my opinion.

There are multiple opinions as to what the song is talking about. I am going to give my own personal opinion with some detail on the characters from the book, so if you are going to read them and don't want to know anything then this is probably a good spot to just skip down to the video itself just to be safe...

In the book, The Hunger Games are a vice of a Capitol city used to remind the 12 surrounding districts that the Capitol is in control. Each district has to give two "tributes" between the ages of 12 and 18. There has to be one boy and one girl. The tributes then are put into an arena of sorts and have to fight to the death until there is only one survivor, who is then crowned the victor. It's rather morbid, but hey! That's why it's fiction! District 12's tributes Katniss and Peeta compete together as a team. Inside and outside of the arena, which is unheard of in the history of The Hunger Games. Eventually they grow close together and just like every other victor or tribute in the games, their sleep is haunted by the images of the games, the people they killed, seeing their allies dying, and the things that tried to kill them. To cope with this, Katniss and Peeta begin to sleep next to each other and holding each other through the night. This is what I personally believe the song is about. There is more to my theory and definitely multiple ideas out there, but I'll let you read the books to come up with your own; but that is the general idea of what I think this song is about.

I hope you enjoy the song, and have a great start to the week!

Also, here is an interesting cover of the song (not sure how I feel about it yet, but thought I would share it anyway) along with the official movie trailer!