Song – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ‘Into My Arms’ (1997)

Written by Nick Cave and released in their 10th studio album ‘the boatman’s call” in 1997.

The single was released on 7 January 1997.

Wikipedia says that in Cave’s lecture “The Secret Life of the Love Song” to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, he counts the song among those he is most proud of having written.  

Cave said he wrote the song in rehab: “I was actually walking back from church through the fields, and the tune came into my head, and when I got back to the facility I sat down at the cranky old piano and wrote the melody and chords, then went up to the dormitory, sat on my bed and wrote those lyrics.” [Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan (2022). Faith, Hope and Carnage. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 51. ISBN 9780374607371.

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