{"id":1091,"date":"2007-01-19T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/01\/19\/friday-song-lyric-nick-cave\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:58:10","slug":"friday-song-lyric-nick-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/19\/friday-song-lyric-nick-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Song Lyric:  Nick Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/01\/16\/geostationary-banana-over-texas\/#comment-179705\">Amara<\/a> reminds me that we haven&#8217;t had any poetry here for a while.  Don&#8217;t have a good stand-alone poem on hand, but I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricmagic.net\/\">lyrics<\/a> from Nick Cave&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boatmans-Call-Nick-Cave-Seeds\/dp\/B000002NE4\/\"><em>The Boatman&#8217;s Call<\/em><\/a> album.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Into My Arms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe in an interventionist God<br \/>\nBut I know, darling, that you do<br \/>\nBut if I did I would kneel down and ask Him<br \/>\nNot to intervene when it came to you<br \/>\nNot to touch a hair on your head<br \/>\nTo leave you as you are<br \/>\nAnd if He felt He had to direct you<br \/>\nThen direct you into my arms<\/p>\n<p>Into my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t believe in the existence of angels<br \/>\nBut looking at you I wonder if that&#8217;s true<br \/>\nBut if I did I would summon them together<br \/>\nAnd ask them to watch over you<br \/>\nTo each burn a candle for you<br \/>\nTo make bright and clear your path<br \/>\nAnd to walk, like Christ, in grace and love<br \/>\nAnd guide you into my arms<\/p>\n<p>Into my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms<\/p>\n<p>But I believe in Love<br \/>\nAnd I know that you do too<br \/>\nAnd I believe in some kind of path<br \/>\nThat we can walk down, me and you<br \/>\nSo keep your candles burning<br \/>\nAnd make a journey bright and pure<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;ll keep returning<br \/>\nAlways and evermore<\/p>\n<p>Into my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms, O Lord<br \/>\nInto my arms<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QlLTjXfNMYg\">the video on YouTube<\/a> for full effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amara reminds me that we haven&#8217;t had any poetry here for a while. Don&#8217;t have a good stand-alone poem on hand, but I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for these lyrics from Nick Cave&#8217;s The Boatman&#8217;s Call album. Into My Arms I don&#8217;t believe in an interventionist God But I know, darling, that you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}