Silversun Pickups

Cradle (Better Nature)

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Cradle (Better Nature) Lyrics

Someone long gone
Said to stay calm
Keep your head on
If you need love

Hide your cradle
And a headstone
In the watermark
When the sea comes

Help me, swallow up
All of your better nature
Please, can you summon up
All of your better nature

When your mind's off
In a tight knot
Can you feel caught
If you need love

Help me, swallow up
All of your better nature
Please can you summon up
All of your better nature (nature, nature, nature, nature)

Hold on
I think you're wrong

Help me, swallow up
All of your better nature
Please, can you summon up
All of your better nature

Better nature, better nature, better nature, better nature
Better nature, better nature, better nature, better nature

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azazel23 On Aug 07, 2015

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Azazel23

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2015-08-07 13:20:14

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by Azazel23

9y ago

"The song Cradle is the first one we wrote for Better Nature. And i guess that we didnt have a title for the record yet, its indicitive of what ended up being the record... If you're thinking the album has some kind of theme, being tethered to the whole thing, then Cradle is the most direct point of it... Trying to go through all the insane right turns of life and trying to do it with a sort of grace and dignity" Brian Aubert https://soundcloud.com/silversunpickups/brian-meaning-behind-cradle?in=silversunpickups/sets/better-nature-commentary

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by lyricfixer

9y ago

oral sex

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by sokorny 9y ago

@lyricfixer I am guessing you are 'pulling' that from the "swallow up" lyrics. The rest of the song sort of deals with themes of a personal struggle to be a better person though.

by jamison108

5y ago

I feel this song is about waiting for love to come and to just hang on and time will come when it does

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