Peaky Blinders Imagines & Preferences

How Do You Die?/Safe & Sound Taylor Swift Lyrics

I do not own the rights to this song! I give credit to Taylor Swift and her team for making this haunting song happen. For entertainment purposes only!!! WARNING: subjects in this chapter are VERY sensitive to some people so if you cannot stomach mentions of torture, death, murder, ect. Then DO NOT READ and keep scrolling. I honestly made myself cry with Isaiah's 😭 . Finn and Luca's are a bit weak, I apologize. I didn't have any real inspiration for them. Which lyric describes the situation from Taylor's song?

Imagine...you were killed and he was not there/able to save you. How did you die? What was his reaction? What happened?

- Thomas Shelby

A gang war was rising between the Peaky Blinders and the Lee's once again, this time over John's affair with one of the Russian girls while they visited the Russians with the Solomons. Esme had told her family about the affair and wanted revenge, blaming Tommy as always. Before Tommy had left, he told you to stay put and that "Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound."Tommy and the Peaky boys left to meet up with the Lee's at a warehouse but found the bolt cutters, freezing as they cautiously tiptoed around. However, the grenade was not there. Tommy freaked out, realizing the grenade was not there but planted somewhere else. Right after Tommy left, the Lee's snuck in and planted the grenade in the floorboard of your kitchen. You, worried and waiting on Tommy to come home, was making yourself a cup of tea to smooth your nerves when you stepped on the board that had the grenade under it. You, as well as your kitchen, was blown to bits. When Tommy came home, the remaining of the explosion smelled of burning flesh and you were no where to be found. That smell is something Tommy can never and will never forget. And your death as well as how you died is something Tommy will never let John forget.

"Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound"

- Alfie Solomon

As revenge for Alfie betraying Sabini, you were kidnapped and tortured for information at the meat factory by his henchmen. And when they got what they wanted out of you, they tied you by your hands to the meat cutting/sawing machines and you hung in a line with the hanging meat of lambs. You had to watch the lamb meat get sawed and cut before you were brutally done the same. Your blood-curdling screams still echo in the building. And then they gave Alfie the remaining pieces of flesh, saying that men like them always lose the things they hold precious to him. To Sabini, his business and money was precious to him. To Alfie, it was you. You were like a beautiful, soothing lullaby that Alfie will forever hold in his heart along with the regret of your vile death. The melody of Alfie's life is gone.

"Hold onto this lullaby even when the music's gone, gone"

- Arthur Shelby

The Billy Boys managed to kidnap you and tried to blackmail Tommy into giving up parts of his business, threatening to hurt you badly if he didn't. While you did not mean much to Tommy, you were Arthur's wife. You had been there for the family and made Arthur happy, which made Tommy happy. Tommy was forced to sign over a piece of his business for your return and safety, but little they know the true horrors that went on at that moment. Because Arthur was a Peaky Blinder and a Shelby, who were rumored to be Gypsies, the men thought it would have been funny to burn Arthur's wife alive like a Gypsy Witch. When the deal was done, the Billy boys and Jimmy McCavern told them to look out the window. You were tied to a stake in flames, suffocating from the smoke and flames. Arthur rushed outside to save you, but it was too late. You were gone, as was the Billy Boys and Jimmy McCavern with the piece of paper stating that Thomas Shelby signed over part of his business to them. Arthur fell to his knees, crying over the loss of his good wife.