Into My Arms (2011 Remastered Edition) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I thought I'd take a walk today It's a mistake I sometimes make My children lay asleep in bed My wife lay wide-awake I kissed her softly on the brow I tried not to make a sound But with stony eyes she looked at me And gently squeezed my hand Call it a premonition, call it a crazy vision Call it intuition, something learned from mother But when she looked up at me, I could clearly see The Sword of Damocles hanging directly above her Oh Lord Oh my Lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms around me Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh My Lord They called at me through the fence They were not making any sense They claimed that I had lost the plot Kept saying that I was not The man I used to be They held their babes aloft Threw marsh mellows at the Security And said that I'd grown soft Call it intuition, call it a creeping suspicion, But their words of derision meant they hardly knew me For even I could see in the way they stared at me The Spear of Destiny sticking right through me Oh Lord Oh my lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms round me Oh Lord Oh lord Oh My Lord Now I'm at the hairdressers People watch me as they move past A guy wearing plastic antlers Presses his bum against the glass Now I'm down on my hands and knees And it's so fucking hot! Someone cries, "What are you looking for?" I scream, "The plot, the plot!" I grab my telephone, I call my wife at home She screams, "Leave us alone!" I say, "Hey, it's only me" The hairdresser with his scissors, he holds up the mirror I look back and shiver; I can't even believe what I can see Be mindful of the prayers you send Pray hard but pray with care For the tears that you are crying now Are just your answered prayers The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down Into the hollows of glamour, where with spikes and hammer With telescopic camera, they chose to turn the screw Oh I hate them, Ma! Oh I hate them, Pa! Oh I hate them all for what they went and done to you Oh Lord Oh my Lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms round me Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh My Lord

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 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 Into my arms, o Lord Into my arms, o Lord Into my arms, o Lord Into my arms

Some days I can't face the world outside I fall straight into my mother's arms And some days, feels like no one's on my side Then I look into my mother's eyes Into my mother's arms Oh, just, just like a child Just like a child Into my mother's arms, where I Where I shan't be harmed Where I won't be harmed Mmm, some say, "You should never have to hide" "If you just live within the light above" But I know if you take away the light If you take away the light, it's all dark, is it not? Ooh, into my mother's arms Oh, just, just like a child Just like a child Into my mother's arms, where I I don't have to hide Show my weaker side Mmm, say, "Hush child, lay your worries all aside" "Just you rest into your mother's arms"

How, how can you catch the sun? Can you breathe when you're on the run Slow down, my darling Every now and then Come and take my hand For every little lie you tell so you can hide Will grow inside your chest Your heart will need to rest So, come into my arms

Baby girl Drop your guard, I won't hurt you no Baby I wanna give you everything you need I wanna be your everything I wanna be your knight in shinin' armour But baby you gotta let me Just like in the movies baby, ima come to ya rescue Ima rescue you And i know this might sound crazy, but I think i'm here to protect you So girl, can you stop running This aint that kinda lovin i got ya Just run into my arms and i will show you Baby you can run into my arms And baby you know that I will do no harm Cause i can be your everything Your superman whatever you need I can be Just run into my arms Baby girl, youve been hurt I know, that your heart is half gone But I promise that you'll be my queen If you let me I wanna be your everything I wanna be your knight in shinin' armour But baby you gotta let me Just like in the movies baby, ima come to ya rescue Ima rescue you And i know this might sound crazy, but I think I'm here to protect you So girl, can you stop running Cause this aint that kinda lovin i got ya Just run into my arms And baby I will show you Baby you can run into my arms And baby you know that I will do no harm Cause I can be your everything Your superman whatever you need I can be Just run into my arms Girl dont be afraid give me your hand and lets just fly away And baby you know I'll always keep you safe And girl I promise that I'll love you I wont do you wrong Just open up your heart and baby run into my arms Baby you can run into my arms And baby you know that I will do no harm Cause I can be your everything Your superman whatever you need I can be Just run into my arms Baby you can run into my arms And baby you know that I will do no harm Cause I can be your everything Your superman whatever you need I can be Just run into my arms Just call me holiday, holiday, holiday.

Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet And as we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine; my love, she did not know And so I poisoned that dear little girl along the banks below Along the banks below I drew my saber through her; it was a bloody night I threw her in the river, which was a dreadful sight My father often told me that money would set me free And so I murdered that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly Whose name was Rose Connelly My father sits at his cabin door wiping his tear-dimmed eyes His only son soon should walk to yonder scaffold high My race is run beneath the sun; the scaffold now waits for me For I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly Whose name was Rose Connelly Whose name was Rose Connelly

I was riding, I was riding home The sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the field I got a feeling I just can't shake I got a feeling that just won't go away You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing it Push the sky away And if your friends think that you should do it different And if they think that you should do it the same You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away And if you feel you got everything you came for If you got everything and you don't want no more You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away Some people say it's just rock and roll Oh but it gets you right down to your soul You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away