Into My Arms

another question.

What is a song by another artist that you wish you wrote? Into My Arms, Nick Cave.

Hmm.

Okay.

Let me make sure it's what I think it is.

But let's listen to Nick Cave.

Into my arms, oh Lord.

Into my arms, oh Lord.

That's been the only way.

That's Into My Arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

And Into Australia's Arms.

That'll do, won't it? One of these days, I'm just going to say, I'll pitch it to you.

G'day.

Now, the picture...

The picture you took for Into My Arms is a homeless man asleep on the floor.

And I'm not saying I don't see the link, but I don't see the link.

Was it Tom Waits? What was the song? It was Nick Cave, actually.

It was Into My Arms by Nick Cave.

That is actually a really beautiful song, but yes.

It's a beautiful song.

Like, "Go ahead, do whatever you want with this one."

And then a lot of less genre movies use, uh, Into My Arms, which is

isYeah

And so now we're into, like, the early aughts-

It's beautiful though.

Some absolutely beautiful songs.

Our friend Ruth says that, "Seeing that my ringtone is Into My Arms, I am voting for The Boatman's Call." That's right.

And, uh, we're gonna hear Into My Arms because it's a, it's a beautiful love song.

This week's last postcard is penned by singer-songwriter Nick Cave.

Huge hits have flowed from his pen, including Into My Arms, Red Right Hand, and Where the Wild Roses Grow.

When I spoke to him in 2025 however, he was keen to disabuse anyone of the notion that writing songs comes easily to him.

Mostly when I write, it's despairing in the fact that all I'm doing is writing bad stuff.

Mm.

The songs reveal themselves painfully and through time.

What about a song like Into My Arms? It's hard to imagine that not fully formed coming together in that way.

Yeah.

And it opens with "Deanna", and I thought, "Oof, that's an interesting song." And the next track was "Red Right Hand", and that is so different to, to, to kind of pretty much anything else.

By the time we got to "Tupelo" and "The Carny", uh, and then "Into My Arms" and things, you know, I thought, "This guy, this guy could do so many different things.

He's got a really unique sound." Um, and I then immediately went backwards and forwards and, and I think I bought his, probably his next album came out shortly afterwards, whi- which was Nocturama, which is most people's least favorite, but I still love it 'cause it was the, probably the first one I bought new, as it were.

But I also started going back into the earlier albums from, from that to, uh, to, to find out what I'd been missing, and just realized that he'd, he'd done so much extraordinary stuff.