"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:
“In no part of the Seventeenth Century could the French be said to have had a foothold in Canada; they held only by the fur of the wild animals which they were exterminating.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“A line in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;
They take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank;”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)