Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min · 3 segments
The singer songwriter Nick Cave was cast away by Lauren Laverne in 2025. He has written huge hits such as "Into My Arms" and "Where the Wild Roses Grow", but songwriting doesn't come easily to him…
Nick CaveGuest
Lauren LaverneHost
Mostly when I write, it's despairing in the fact that all I'm doing is writing bad stuff.
And I write a lot and, and within that lot, there are some precious moments that reveal themselves in time, by which I mean that everything I've put down on the page looks bad, sounds bad.
But certain lines just sit there on the page and they do sort of lift themselves out of the kind of morass of rubbish.
This is what I wanna write a song about, this is what's concerning me at the moment, I need to write this.
What about a song like Into My Arms? It's hard to imagine that not fully formed coming together in that way.
They, they allow you to go to church, and I'd been to church on a Sunday, and I was walking back through the field back to this terrible place.
And the sort of melody came into my, my head, and I sort of ran upstairs and started writing those words down.
A new patient was sharing the room [laughs] with me, who, who was a, a junkie in, in a desperate state who'd come out of the shower, and, and I remember him spraying, um, body, uh, Lynx, whatever that stuff is called.
Mostly when I write, it's despairing in the fact that all I'm doing is writing bad stuff.
And I write a lot and, and within that lot, there are some precious moments that reveal themselves in time, by which I mean that everything I've put down on the page looks bad, sounds bad.
But certain lines just sit there on the page and they do sort of lift themselves out of the kind of morass of rubbish.
This is what I wanna write a song about, this is what's concerning me at the moment, I need to write this.
What about a song like Into My Arms? It's hard to imagine that not fully formed coming together in that way.
They, they allow you to go to church, and I'd been to church on a Sunday, and I was walking back through the field back to this terrible place.
And the sort of melody came into my, my head, and I sort of ran upstairs and started writing those words down.
A new patient was sharing the room [laughs] with me, who, who was a, a junkie in, in a desperate state who'd come out of the shower, and, and I remember him spraying, um, body, uh, Lynx, whatever that stuff is called.
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