Safe & Sound (Taylor Swift song)

"Safe & Sound" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift featuring the American musical duo the Civil Wars, taken from the soundtrack of The Hunger Games (2012). Swift and the Civil Wars wrote the track with its producer T Bone Burnett. The track is an indie folk ballad with a spare arrangement evoking Americana, alternative country, and Appalachian music. The lyrics are about the Hunger Games protagonist Katniss Everdeen's empathy and compassion for other characters, even as she fights to survive in the eponymous Games. Swift sings lead vocals in a fragile, high-pitched tone, while the Civil Wars provide vocal harmonies.

Big Machine Records released "Safe & Sound" for download via the iTunes Store on December 26, 2011. A music video for "Safe & Sound", directed by Philip Andelman and filmed in Watertown, Tennessee, was released on February 13, 2012. Music critics described the production as haunting and eerie and generally praised the songwriting. "Safe & Sound" won Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in 2013. The song charted in the top 40 and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia and the United States. Following the 2019 dispute over the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded "Safe & Sound" and released it as "Safe & Sound (Taylor's Version)" on March 17, 2023, via Republic Records.