Hmm i think I am in the same boat as Redbossfan, all his/her thoughts are exactly what i was thinking about this song.

It's a very magical mature sounding ballad or love song, but it's probably my mood right now... not a compatible song today.

I can't seem to really grasp on to this song either like I'm listening to it but for some reason i can't really LISTEN to it.., you know when someone is talking and you can hear them but you don't know what they're saying because you're not listening.

I have had the song on a few times on now but it seems to go in one ear and out the other, i can't trap it in my mind for a few minutes and really reflect upon it but this song is now immortal and i can try it out another time to see what happens, hopefully it will feel right.

It's a great song!!! It's quite a catchy melody (perfect for a single) but an amazing song. And I love Marko's falsetto!! I always like the parts where he sang like that!

I like the sound of the song. I feel like it says "no matter how dark times you have, don't worry, always there is someone to love you and this is the matter".

Marko's voice is so soft, so nice that with an accompaniment of all the instruments and sound effects it gives an amazing, melancholic, somehow sad but happy feeling while listening to it and also long after it.
I really love the refrain, because when I hear the drums, Olli slowly plays guitar and also Marko's backing vocals, it makes me feel warm inside my heart and I start smiling

I also didn't expect a song like this for the first single, but for me that's all right. I love new sounds from our Poets and always it's for me a nice surprise

The song was ok. I liked the melody and the overall sound but it just didn't hit me this time. Not sure whether it's the fact that Marko sings so high so much in this song or if the song's love song style just doesn't work for me at the moment. Definitely not the worst song by PotF by any means but not one of my favourites either.

Will see what the other songs will be like (assuming that there will be no second single release before the album itself is out)

Edit: The more I listen to it the more I love the melody. I still, however, am not liking the amount of high voice of Marko in this song. Though, I am sure some people appreciate the high voice a bit more than I do

I love it! I can't wait for the rest of the album now! I have something to look forward to in 2012!

My feelings exactly! The song is simply beautiful...my favorite line? "I was your starlight..." I close my eyes and listen and I get goosebumps, literally.
This has to be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. All my love to the guys for this!

Also, what I think I feel in the pit of my stomach from this song is a longing for a love like this...just wow...

Edited to add:
And now, after hearing it...several times...every time I hear "I was your starlight...", I feel like crying, so poignant...I'm in love with this song so much.

Sounds totally like the opening song on album, breaking the tradition of a rocker opening.
Single art in blue colour palette - who's taking bets here?

"I kept the love you gave me alive, and now I carry it with me"
That's just so true. We always carry the feelings we have or have had for people we love or have loved inside us.
And in some strange way this line seems like an answer to a line "Could you hold us up if I would drag us down?" in King of Fools. I don't know why. It just feels like there's a sense of comfortable belonging instead of insecurity and doubt.
Now that I've listened to this song a bit more (and fallen more and more in love with it), my first impression has changed a little. My first feeling was that this song sounds exactly like what falling in love feels like. But with the correct lyrics up (I had some hilarious misunderstandings there, when I tried to make them out by myself) the song sounds exactly like what falling in love, being in love and having been in love feel like.

Edit: Many people seem to find this melancholy, poignant and a little sad, but I find the overtone to be hopeful and content with a touch of tranquility and acceptance.

I'm a little worried this one will rival my favourite song's (Given and Denied) number one spot. And I don't want to like any other song more than that, I'm not ready to let go of my favourite.

And if you want to know about the misheard lyrics... Well, there was "to back up all those daisies" instead of "gazes" and "I can hear your dollface say" instead of "I can hear a dolphin sing".

To me, it is all of those things together, which would explain why I had a peaceful smile on my face while my eyes were watering and I had a lump in my throat...
Both of those descriptions seem at odds with each other, but to me, they describe the song perfectly...

Oh...this is what I was thinking yesterday too! Given and Denied is, if not my number one, definetely in my Top 3! When I was listening to Cradled In Love again and again yesterday I had sort of...mixed emotions because at the same time I kept asking myself "is this going to knock out Given and Denied from my Top 3"

@Claudia72
You really hit the spot. Thank you for sharing your feelings with me. I'm never so good to put my feelings into words.




@Dark Side of Light

For me many Poets songs have a bit of sadness, but at some point I always sense hope and happiness. Tranquility and acceptance! Yeah, that's it! Seems to me that everyone is better with words and feelings than me *sigh

... and when it comes to my favorite songs: I really can't point them out. Given and Denied is one of them and NENB, but there is Sleep and All the Way 4U .... and now Cradled in Love is allowed to join




@The Foreboding

You can't make any mistakes when telling us such a wonderful experience. When I'm in Finland in winter I love to have a walk under the stars and when you tell your story it really made me cry. So beautiful! I understand every single word and can imagine what you felt. Thank you for sharing this moment with me.

Interesting, because the lyrics tell me this song is about being in love and happily so, so my brain tells me it should make me happy. I hear happiness all over this song. Yet when I listen to it, the song makes me feel sad - profoundly and not the good kind of sad either. (nope, in this case sad is not "happy for deep people" ;)) Anyway, I think this is what bothers me about the song - that my feeling is incongruent with what I think it should make me feel like. This is very personal though and does not say anything about the quality of the song.


Something about the lyrics/ content of the song that occured to me this morning:

I read this song as a continuation of "Heal My Wounds" and "No End, No Beginning". To me it seems like a third part to a story that started there. It goes from hurt/pain (Heal my Wounds) to Closure/New Beginning (No End, No Beginning) to Happiness/Content (Cradled in Love).

For me all three songs are told from the same character's point of view and they cover the different stages of a relationship.
Heal my Wounds tells the story of a relationship gone wrong. It is ending or has ended with all the pain and feeling of longing and wanting to get back to what once was that goes with it. The whole feeling of the song for me is hurt and sadness and love lost.
No End, No Beginning continues right there. It carries all the pain and doubt in the beginning, but during the song these feelings are resolved and take a turn for the positve in the end. This tells the story of either a relationship being rekindled, working through difficulties and coming out positive in the end or of one relationship ending and a new one beginning. For me the second interpretatin fits better. Either way, things are good when the song ends and the overall feeling for me is falling deeply in love and being very much in love.
Cradled in Love then, tells the story of someone who has "arrived" who is in a relationship that feels comfortable and right and all positive. The overall feeling is again being very much in love and happy, but at a later stage of a relationship. No End, No Beginning sounds more like brand new love to me, with all the excitement that brings, whereas Cradled in Love is more settled, comfortable and sure about things.

This is what I hear/feel in those songs. Of course it is just my opinion, feel free to agree or disagree. I'd be interested to read what you think.

Oh, I just love it when music brings out feelings in people, no matter what the feelings are like. And that so many people are willing to share those feelings here, with other people who listen to the same music. There's so much to be found in songs, and it's precious to read about the things that other people find in them. It has often helped me to find things I otherwise might not have. This time is not an exception.
Thanks everyone, for sharing This is the best forum with the best forumers. ^^

hm... I might be getting the whole thing wrong... I'm not sure I'm understanding the lyrics totally.
I would consider it a 'happy' song, if I have to put it either in the sad or happy category... not sure.
At first I'd thought of it as a love song, but then I realized it might be about a love (of any kind) that ends, still leaves you something inside, and you learn to look at all the love and the good things that still surrounds you.
Yet it sounds too 'positve' for an ending love.

Also I thought of it as a 'what happened after' of No End No Beginning
Like: the story's ended, and now you look again to new things.
I don't see a connection to Heal My Wounds, while I partially link CIL to Given & Denied, but it might be just because of the blue eyes.

Something in it also reminds me of Can You Hear Me... but not for the meaning of the lyrics, just for something like a feeling in the lyrics

Redbossfan wrote:


This is an interesting view and I will listen to the three songs carefully with these thoughts in my mind. Although I already can agree a bit with "No End No Beginning" to be the song which leads finally to "Cradled in Love". About "Heal My Wounds" on the other hand I'm not so sure.
But when reading Marko's interview the new album should be the third in a row with SoL and CoR (...."We have a thought that the next album is in a way a fulfillment to our 2 first albums. So this is the third part of a trilogy." ....)
... but still I like your idea, Redbossfan


@Dark Side of Light

yes, I love to read all these comments about this song or any song of Poets of the Fall. It often gives me another perspective of seeing things.

I'm actually pretty sure I could find arguments to tie 3 am and All the way / 4U to Cradled in Love, but I have not looked at those two sogs in this respect, because I didn't immediately feel a connection there.
Just a first though: All the way /4U describes the same feeling Cradled in Love does, but somehow more - for lack of a better word - theoretically. To me the character in All te way/4 U knows what being in love feels like but is still a little insecure and trying to figure things out, whereas the character in Cradled in Love stands knows what love is like and is sure about being there. So the former feel like a more immature incarnation of the latter. Again, just my opinion and I have not listened to the songs in comparison, I'm writing this from the memory of the feelings connected to the songs.

I think the new album cover and the album's title have been posted at Poets' FB-site:
http://www.facebook.com/poetsofthefall

Temple of Thought

Or then it's the next single, the one to be released in Germany?
But I just have a feeling it's the album...

1. I think this song will perfectly sound acoustically. )))


2. The card is cool, Marko plays two roles (once again The Master of Disguise ).

So nice that POTF are so meaning )))))

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥


BTW, what's the card suit?

It would fit with the 3rd part of a trilogy theme:
- Signs of life
- Carnival of Rust
- Temple of Thought

Hm, are RR and TT part of a Trilogy as well?

That's going to be:

SoL, CoR and ToT

and later we will have another trilogy:
RR, TT and ## - something else with two words


I really like the cover.

After all the toughts we have about the new single "Temple of Thought" feels so right for the album. It has to be the name


Edit:

@ Mahoniara and @ Redbossfan

"SoL - CoR - ToT

and RR - TT"

Yeah, feels better and better

"Temple Of Thought" sounds very intriguing..
And from the name it does look like a trilogy
When you see a cover and name, it starts to look real - can't wait to listen to it

From the cover, it seems that we have again the theme of a 'double'

@Redbossfan

The thought of the trilogy really got to me. I just tried "Shallow" "King of Fools" and "Cradled in Love".
I love this idea because the songs came so naturally .... from feeling lost and searching for hold (glad to find it, because the waters are so shallow) but still not sure (Could you hold us up if I would drag us down?) and than Cradled in Love, which means for me safe and sure to love and to be loved.

I think there might be more combinations, but I like this one too much to let go

Temple of Thought, yeah, it feels right and fits perfectly! I... I think I had slight déjà vu just before reading the name. And the cover is great! Gotta save some money so I can buy all these treasures as soon as possible



Oh, you're welcome! Although I think it's me who should thank you because reading your message made me smile, now I'm happy of writing about that moment. Finland really turns into a magic world at snowy, wintry nights.

Looking at the cover, I laughed so hard. Muscles? Is this the topic of the new album?
This album is the second of the trilogy "Put Marko on the cover"
sry

If this album was end of a trilogy (SoL + CoR), then it misses a certain candy (nope, stop imagining Marko's muscles again!)

And there goes my idea of having found something unique...
Doesn't surprise me at all. Quite the contrary, it has always intrigued me how different people view the songs differently.

All this talk about the cover is making me curious, but I cannot access fb at work. I'll see it in less than an hour though.

I think you might find the image somewhere already *cough* click *cough*

Cradled in Love was beautiful, yesterday I just hurried from a class to listen my phone's radio and almost yelled out loud "Yay, Marko's voice!"

And I giggled for the cover, I never would have thought a cover like that

same here
I was expecting some drawing, for some reason I just didn't expect to see Marko there (and a shirtless Marko was even less expected ^^)

Aside from that, the cover looks very "POTF-style" to me
The tarot card reminded me of COR... and now what I'm wondering about the triology thing.
And also about the album release date
And about the German single

POTF gave us a lot to think of altogether

Temple of Thought? I dunno, and a shirtless Marko on the cover... Girls are about to go crazy xD But yeah, I dunno. I always fall in love with the music right away but I'm not gonna play the "Guess what story is behind the cover" game... I'm sorry...