Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms (4K Official Video)

Official 4K music video for “Into My Arms’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

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Video directed by Jonathan Glazer.

‘Into My Arms’ was the first single taken from the band’s 10th album
‘The Boatman’s Call’ and originally released in February 1997.

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Lyrics:

I don’t believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I don’t believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that’s true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

But I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

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[samg]

This man has lost two children and managed to continue on with grace and eloquence. I'll never know how many people he's helped survive unbearable grief, but I know that he deserves all the recognition in the world for how much he has done.

[joshuaporterfield]

I’m glad I’ve been fortunate enough to live at the same time as Nick Cave.

[JoyArt]

This is the most perfect love song ever written. It covers all love, romantic, familial, mother and child, father and child, pets… love is beautiful. But it’s also riddled with pain and fear and guilt and desperation. It’s what makes a soul alive. This song is all that.

[Brisvegas]

As you can tell by my name I'm terminally ill.
Had a stroke at 33 and upon a scan at hospital they found a huge inoperable brain tumour.
This will be played at my burning I hope!
The most beautiful, heartfelt, poetic and real track to me.
Thankyou Mr Cave for all you have given us ❤

[nikkitronic]

Just on the boat coming home from Nick's Seattle 2025 show. This song was part of the encore.
He had us all sing together the chorous. A truly beautiful moment.
I had to listen again

[TheDaveb]

I played this at my wife of 28yrs funeral, i couldnt think of a more appropriate, beautiful and fitting song. Love you forever Spunky❤❤❤

[lizzyl]

I lost my dog Toodles. I know you may think it is just a dog. However he was my world, my best bud, my emotional support dog, and my rescue baby. I did CPR on him at 2 a.m. our regular vet was closed. We drove an hour away to emergency clinic doing CPR. He came back 3 times....I tried to save him. Vet said maybe he may make it but critical. He had a heart murmur . What we did not know, until the next day, is that a palpitation caused a rupture and part of his heart had collapsed. He was put in an oxygen tank. He died the next morning. I fell to the floor. I am beyond devastated. Traumatized. I loved him so very much. I hope to see him at the Rainbow Bridge one day. Until then I can not. I just can't. I am beyond sad. Emptiness in my heart aches. I miss you Toodles so much. Forever.

[MrHeadBudd]

My dad used to Play this for my mother when they were cooking together. I‘m so glad I had such loving parents growing up! This Song feels Like home

[lindacottan]

My little sister was cremated yesterday. She was diagnosed with cancer and passed away within a short 5 weeks.
This song was chosen for her funeral by our brother who thought the words fit the occasion perfectly.
Rest In Peace Theresa...you will be loved forever 🙏

[prembyrne]

Nick Cave on the death in 2015 of his teenage son Arthur:

"Arthur’s death literally changed everything for me. Absolutely everything. It made me a religious person. I am not talking about being a traditional Christian. I am not even talking about a belief in God, necessarily. It made me a religious person in the sense that I felt, on a profound level, a deep inclusion in the human predicament, and an understanding of our vulnerability and the sense that, as individuals, we are, each of us, imperilled. Each life is precarious, and some of us understand it and some don’t. I became a person after my son died.

The world seemed to vibrate with a peculiar, spiritual energy. I was genuinely surprised by how susceptible I became to a kind of magical thinking. How readily I dispensed with that wholly rational part of my mind and how comforting it was to do so. Now, that may well be a strategy for survival and, as such, a part of the ordinary mechanics of grief, but it is something that persists to this day. Perhaps it is a kind of delusion, I don’t know, but if it is, it is a necessary and benevolent one.

Things happen in your life, terrible things, great obliterating events, where the need for spiritual consolation can be immense, and your sense of what is rational is less coherent and can suddenly find itself on very shaky ground. I think of late I’ve grown increasingly impatient with my own skepticism; it feels obtuse and counter-productive, something that’s simply standing in the way of a better-lived life. I love this world — with all its joys and its vast goodness, its civility and complete and utter lack of it, its brilliance and its absurdity. I love it all, and the people in it, all of them. I feel nothing but deep gratitude to be a part of this whole cosmic mess.

I don’t know how to exactly say this, and please don’t misunderstand it, but since Arthur died I have been able to step beyond the full force of the grief and experience a kind of joy that is entirely new to me. It was as if grief enlarged my heart in some way. I have experienced periods of happiness more than I have ever felt before, even though it was the most devastating thing ever to happen to me.

This is Arthur’s gift to me, one of the many. It is his munificence that’s made me a different person. I say all this with huge caution and a million caveats, but I also say it because there are those who think there is no way back from the catastrophic event. That they will never laugh again. But there is, and they will."

[andydaglish]

After the death of my wife i have shed many tears over this song but yet it has helped me through my grief. Perfect song in every way

[agnieszkakleszcz]

What a beautiful declaration of love. Hope we all feel that emotion at least once.

[sf]

Probably one of the most beautiful songs ever made.

[vindictivevillain]

[LYRICS]
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did, I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Oh, not to touch a hair on your head
Leave you as you are
If he felt he had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
Both to each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms

But I believe in Love
And I know that you do, too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
Make her journey bright and pure
That she'll keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms, oh Lord
Into my arms

[dollybushaven]

In my 60's and I've never heard a song that affects me the way this song does in a good way. Tears pour out and makes me stop all other thoughts and be in the moment. Simply one of the best songs ever ❤, thank you Nick and Co.

[truelovewontwait]

Whatever emotions you're in, whatever phase in life you're currently through, this song will find its way into your heart.

[Marie]

I lost my brother due to suicide 4 months ago. I’m working in our family caffe every day instead of him, and this songs comes on a lot. In those moments I feel like he’s giving me a hug. I miss him so much, words cannot describe it.

[philipgage]

I am an atheist so I don't believe in an interventionist god. My wife was raised as a catholic. She believed in him. She died a few months after our 40th wedding anniversary. My eldest son sent me a link to this video on messenger. I wish she was still in my arms.

[coldworld]

I played this to my daughter just a couple of hours after she was born. Such a special song to me.

[nala]

I'm fourteen years old. My father is my best friend, as we drive we listen to his favourite music, which is also my favourite.... this song makes me think of him.

**I am now 17, just shy of 18! Sometimes I am a very melodramatic teenage girl (apologies!), he still loves me all the same and every single day I hope to be as intelligent and wonderful as he is. I hope we never stop listening to this song.