Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

"I don't believe in an interventionist God."

Album: The Boatman's Call [10th album]
Recorded: London, England
Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Piano Rock
Album Release: March 3rd 1997
Single Release: January 27th 1997
Length: 6.15
Producer: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Chris Scard & Flood
Vocalist: Nick Cave [age 39]
Label: Mute Records (BMG)

Music Video


Live from Songwriters Circle in 1999

Charts, Streams & Sales

Worldwide Sales: 500,000 + (source is Donna Vergier, formerly of Mute Records, via Billboard)
Spotify: Over 100 million
YouTube Music: Over 30 million
Nominated for Single of the Year at the 1997 ARIA Awards

Credits

Details

• Wrote in rehab, Cave attendend church as an Atheist on a boring Sunday and was struck by inspiration. Improvising the piano and melody first, Cave later penned the lyrics in a small room in the rehab centre.
  
• The Boatman's Call uses less instruments than earlier Bad Seeds records. The songs have more space between the notes and the lyrics are more personal, more introspective and the tempo is slower.
  
  
• Cave is proud to have written the song.
  
• The music video is directed by Palm d'Or nominee Jonathan Glazer. Nick Cave, while admiring the professional production values, didn't think the video captured the songs optimism.
  
• There is a cover version by The Flaming Lips, who have teamed up with the singer Nell.
• There is a cover version by former The Who frontman Roger Daltry who about which said 'I like his version but I don't think he sang it as a singer. He keeps a dark side to the song, which is great for Nick Cave, but I heard something different in it.'

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