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{{Infobox song
| name          = Into My Arms
| cover         = Into My Arms.jpg
| alt           = 
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]
| album         = [[The Boatman's Call]]
| B-side        = Little Empty Boat
| released      = 27 January 1997
| recorded      = 
| studio        = [[Sarm West]], [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]] (London, England)
| genre         = 
* [[Alternative rock]]
* [[Gospel music|gospel]]
| length        = 4:15
| label         = [[Mute Records]]
| writer        = [[Nick Cave]]
| producer      = [[Flood (producer)|Flood]], Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
| prev_title    = [[Young_Hunting#Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version|Henry Lee]]
| prev_year     = 1996
| next_title    = [[(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For|(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?]]
| next_year     = 1997
}}
"'''Into My Arms'''" is a song written by [[Nick Cave]], and released as the first single from [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]' tenth studio album ''[[The Boatman's Call]]'' in 1997. The single, released on 27 January 1997, was pressed on [[7"]] vinyl, as well as a standard CD single. A promotional music video for the song was also recorded.

==Background and history==
The song takes the form of a love ballad, with a piano and an electric bass as the sole instruments used. Music journalist and critic [[Toby Creswell]] included "Into My Arms" in his book ''[[1001 Songs]]: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them'', in which he attributed the song's melancholic lyrics to the break-up of Cave's long-term relationship with Viviane Carneiro and his subsequent brief relationship and break-up with English musician [[PJ Harvey]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Toby|last=Creswell|title=1001 Songs : The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|year=2006|isbn=1-74066-331-4}}</ref><ref name="hottest100">[http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/countdown/cd_31-40.htm Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time], [[Triple J]], 2009.</ref> In Cave's lecture "The Secret Life of the Love Song" to the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]], he counts the song among those he is most proud of having written.<ref>Cave, Nick: [http://www.sfd.at/english/texts/lovesong.pdf The Love Song], Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 25 September 1999.</ref>

Cave said he wrote the song in rehab: "I was actually walking back from church through the fields, and the tune came into my head, and when I got back to the facility I sat down at the cranky old piano and wrote the melody and chords, then went up to the dormitory, sat on my bed and wrote those lyrics."<ref>{{cite book | author= Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan |title=Faith, Hope and Carnage|year=2022|page=51|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9780374607371}}</ref>

Cave performed the song at the funeral of his friend, [[INXS]] singer [[Michael Hutchence]], but requested the cameras recording the service be switched off as he performed.<ref>[http://www.michaelhutchence.org/index.php?page=242 Order of Service], ''Official Michael Hutchence Memorial Website''.</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/34997.stm | work=BBC News | title=Celebrities and fans share Hutchence family grief | date=27 November 1997}}</ref>

==Reception==
The song was also nominated for Single of the Year at the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1997|1997 ARIA Awards]],<ref>[http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1997 11th Annual ARIA Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222011152/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1997 |date=22 December 2007 }}, [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]], 1997.</ref> and came No. 18 in the [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1997|Triple J Hottest 100]] of that year.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history/1997.htm Hottest 100 1997], [[Triple J]], 1998.</ref> It was No. 84 in the 1998 [[Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 1998|Hottest 100 of All Time]], and No. 36 in the 2009 [[Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009|Hottest 100 of All Time]].<ref name="hottest100" /> In 2020, ''[[Far Out (website)|Far Out]]'' ranked the song number three on their list of the 20 greatest Nick Cave songs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/nick-cave-bad-seeds-best-songs-of-all-time/|title=Nick Cave’s 20 greatest songs of all time|first=Jack|last=Whatley|website=[[Far Out (website)|Far Out]]|date=September 22, 2020|accessdate=December 6, 2023}}</ref> and in 2023, ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' ranked the song number two on their list of the 30 greatest Nick Cave songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/the-mojo-list/nick-caves-30-greatest-songs-ranked/|title=Nick Cave’s 30 Greatest Songs Ranked|website=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|date=November 14, 2023|accessdate=December 6, 2023}}</ref>

==Music video==
The song's [[music video]] was directed by British director [[Jonathan Glazer]]. In an interview on the DVD ''The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer'', Nick Cave praised the video as well-produced, but said he considered it a poor fit with the song as the video's depressing imagery overrode the melancholic optimism Cave had intended the song to convey.<ref>[http://www.palmpictures.com/film/the-work-of-director-jonathan-glazer.php The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091014130253/http://www.palmpictures.com/film/the-work-of-director-jonathan-glazer.php |date=14 October 2009 }}, Palm Pictures.</ref><ref>[http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=7574 The Work of Director-Jonathan Glazer (2005)], ''MichaelDVD'', 7 March 2007.</ref>

== Covers ==
The song has been adapted into [[Greek language|Greek]] by songwriter [[Dionysis Savvopoulos]]. The recording is included on his music album titled ''"To Xenodocheio"'' (1997).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YW4Ag9vHSI "Άδεια μου αγκαλιά", Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος], recording from the "Diesi in Concert" series, 2020.</ref>

==Track listings==
'''UK CD single''' <small>(Mute Records, CD MUTE 192)</small>
#"Into My Arms" – 4:15
#"Little Empty Boat" – 4:25
#"Right Now I'm A-Roaming" – 4:21

'''UK 7-inch single''' <small>(Mute Records, MUTE 192)</small>
#"Into My Arms" – 4:15
#"Little Empty Boat" – 4:25

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Chart (1997)
! Peak<br>position
|-
|[[ARIA Charts|Australian Charts]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nick+Cave+%26+The+Bad+Seeds&titel=Into+My+Arms&cat=s|title=australian-charts.com – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms|year=1997|access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|26
|-
|[[Official New Zealand Music Chart|New Zealand Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Nick+Cave+%26+The+Bad+Seeds&titel=Into+My+Arms&cat=s|title=charts.nz – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms|year=1997|access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|41
|-
|[[VG-lista|Norwegian Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nick+Cave+%26+The+Bad+Seeds&titel=Into+My+Arms&cat=s|title=norwegiancharts.com – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms|year=1997|access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|8
|-
|[[Sverigetopplistan|Swedish Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Nick+Cave+%26+The+Bad+Seeds&titel=Into+My+Arms&cat=s|title=swedishcharts.com – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms|year=1997|access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|46
|-
|[[UK Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Complete Book of the British Charts |last=Warwick |first=Neil |author2=Tony Brown |author3=Jon Kutner  |year=2004 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=1-84449-058-0 }}</ref>
|align="center"|53
|}

==Certifications==
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds|title=Into My Arms|award=Silver|relyear=2004|certyear=2022|id=18209-2123-1|access-date=8 July 2022}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/bbcfoursessions/nickcave/intomyarms/ Nick Cave performs Into My Arms], ''BBC Four Sessions'' ([[iPlayer]])

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[[Category:Nick Cave songs]]
[[Category:1997 singles]]
[[Category:Music videos directed by Jonathan Glazer]]
[[Category:Mute Records singles]]
[[Category:Rock ballads]]
[[Category:Songs written by Nick Cave]]