Straw Dogs - Cradle in Me Lyrics

I watch the light play on your countenance
As I promise to do better
I see the shades of old predicaments
Through which we fought together
We'll grow stronger
And love longer than a dreaming mind can see
If you cradle in me

You take these days on like an enemy
Deserving to be vanquished
You're always so hard at the remedy
But there our love will languish
Without holding
And rewarding all the things we've come to be
Like when you cradle in me
Cradle in me

I'm the one that feels safe
When you're rolled right into my arms
I don't know who is holding whose
Embedded heart
But I know that we're real
When all that I see
Is you cradled in me
Cradle in me

So for the next however long we have
It's for me to indulge you
Breathe deep so that I know
This harmony now holds you
And when we're older
My tired shoulders will stand ready for you to be
Still cradled in me
Cradle in me
As I'm fading
I will be praying that the last sight my eyes see
Is you cradled in me
Cradle in me