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Safe With Me, made visible.
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Late-night honesty turns irresistibly intimate when two people finally feel safe enough to be real.
Behind the song
“Safe With Me” started with a simple idea: sometimes the smallest things we tell someone are the things that make us feel closest to them.
Not the polished version. Not the answer we’ve practiced. The strange little thoughts, the late-night questions, the song we play when nobody’s home, the name we type and almost send, the things that make us laugh when we should already be asleep.
I wanted the song to feel like one of those conversations that starts casually and somehow turns into 2 a.m. without either person noticing.
There’s flirting in it. There’s curiosity. There’s a little teasing. But underneath all of that is trust.
“Tell me something true” isn’t really a demand for some huge confession. It’s an invitation to let someone see a part of you that you don’t normally show.
That’s where the repeated “safe with me” came from. The more the song developed, the less it became about keeping a secret and the more it became about making the person sharing it feel safe.
Because sometimes intimacy isn’t about knowing everything about someone.
Sometimes it’s just knowing they trusted you enough to tell you one thing.
Lyrics
So tell me something true
Something no one knows but you
Come on, come a little closer
Tell me who, what, when, where, why, and how?
Come on, tell me now, now, now
Now, now, now, now, what, what, what, what
What, what, what turns you on late at night
When it's midnight and you lose track of time
What, what, what do you keep out of sight?
Who do you miss in the middle of the night?
Skip, skip, skip the smooth talk, spare me the lines
The practiced replies, perfectly timed
I, I, I want something messy and small
Something you'd never tell anyone at all
What song do you play
When nobody's home?
Whose name do you type
When you're alone on your phone?
Who do you think of when the lights go low?
Tell me softly, I just want to know
Let it slip, slip, slip
So tell me something true
Something small, something strange, something that's you
What keeps you awake?
What makes you laugh when you should be asleep?
Tell me something sweet
Something silly you'd never repeat
Say it softly
Secretly, silently
You're safe with me
Safe, safe, safe
Safe with me, me, me
Safe, safe, safe
Safe with me, me, me
You're safe with me
Tell, tell, tell me the little thing you fear
The song that you sing when no one can hear
Re, re, rehearse on the ride home alone?
Whole conversations that nobody knows?
Give, give, give me the ramble, the rush
The words that spill out before you can hush
No, no, no, nothing neat or refined
Give me the first thing that falls from your mind
What keeps you awake
When the whole world is dreaming?
What makes you smile
At the glow of your screen?
What little secret
Would you never admit?
Come closer
Let it slip, slip, slip
So tell me something true
Something small, something strange, something that's you
What keeps you awake?
What makes you laugh when you should be asleep?
Tell me something sweet
Something silly you'd never repeat
Say it softly
Secretly, silently
You're safe with me
Safe, safe, safe
Safe with me, me, me
Safe, safe, safe
Safe with me, me, me
You're safe with me
Don't give me polished
Give me honest
The bad joke
The backstory
The half-spoken thought
That you almost forgot
The truth on your tongue
That you swallow instead
The secret that circles
Round in your head
The words you'd whisper in my ear
If you were lying right here
No time to edit
No time to improve
Just me
And you
And something true
So tell me something true
Something small, something strange, something that's you
What keeps you awake?
What makes you laugh when you should be asleep?
Tell me something sweet
Something silly you'd never repeat
Say it softly
Secretly, silently
You're safe with me
Safe, safe, safe
Safe with me, me, me
Safe, safe, safe
Safe with me, me, me
You're safe with me
Let's share a secret
Only we know
You tell me yours
I'll tell you mine
One little secret
One at a time
One little secret
One at a time
Lyric art
5 original artworks
The song’s strongest lines, reimagined as a frame-worthy art collection. Select any piece to view it full size.
