Valentine's Day Song- Nick Cave's "Into My Arms"

it is little secret that nick cave is one of the more important poets currently working in the rock'n'roll biz...and i mean the "working" part as mr. cave labours over his craft like a mapmaker... he has vision, ambition and puts in the hours each morning... his "boatman's call" album from 1997 thematically akin to dylan's "blood on the tracks" is chock full of ruminations on the o so tricky aspects of love..."into my arms" is particularly poignant but the whole enchilada amazes:


Into My Arms

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
And 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

And 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