"You Held the World in Your Arms " is a song by Scottish rock band Idlewild, from their 2002 album The Remote Part. It was the first single from the album in June 2002 and charted at #9 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2002 in British music). To date "You Held the World in Your Arms" is Idlewild's highest placed single release in the UK charts and their only single to make the Top 10.
The song was tracklisted on the highly successful console game series FIFA Football 2003.
Famous quotes containing the words held, world and/or arms:
“There is held to be no surer test of civilisation than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognisable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilisation altogether.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)
“That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the world that we know—I mean our human reason—is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his art—what but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholstered—in a word, the luxurious quality of his music?”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)