Throw Your Arms (Around Me)

ABOUT THE SONG

"Throw Your Arms Around Me" is the song that Hunters and Collectors are best remembered for - for better or worse. It still gets played at least somewhere in the country at most times of the day. Whenever a "best Australian songs" list comes up, the chances are Throw Your Arms will be in there somewhere. Big names have covered the song - artists such as Pearl Jam and Crowded House, who have sold more records than Hunters and Collectors could have dreamed of.

- Hunters & Collectors website

Love songs are hard enough to pull off tastefully. The strength of Arms is in its honesty, and a very simple hooky chorus. Other than that there isn't much else to say. It's personal. Hunters played it with great force and conviction. Though many have covered it, the best version is this live one from 'Under One Roof'.

- Mark Seymour, "Natural Selection" liner notes

LYRICS

I will come for you at night time
I will raise you from your sleep
I will kiss you in four places
I'll go running along your street
I will squeeze the life out of you
You will make me laugh and make me cry
We will never forget it
You will make me call your name and I'll shout it to the blue summer sky

We may never meet again
So shed your skin and lets get started
And you will throw your arms around me

I dreamed of you at night time
And I watched you in your sleep
I met you in high places
I touched your head and touched your feet
So if you disappear out of view
You know, I will never say goodbye
Though I try to forget it
You will make me call your name and I'll shout it to the blue summer sky

We may never meet again
So shed your skin and lets get started
And you will throw your arms around me
Yeah you will throw you arms around me

(repeat to end)

CHORDS
(from the Crash Test Dummies website)

      E                         A 
I will come for you at night-time. 
      E                        B 
I will raise you from your sleep. 
      E                       A 
I will kiss you in four places. 
      E                       B 
I'll go running along your street. 
      E                         A 
I will squeeze the life out of you. 
        E                            B 
You will make me laugh and make me cry. 
       E              A 
We will never forget it. 
        E 
You will make me call your name,    
A                          B 
and I'll shout it to the blue summer sky. 



      E              A 
We may never meet again,  
E                              B 
so shed your skin and lets get started. 
        E   A         B 
You will throw your arms around me. 



  E                         A 
I dreamed of you at night-time 
     E                       B 
and I watched you in your sleep. 
E                    A 
I met you in high places.             
E                        B 
I touched your head and touched your feet. 

         E                   A 
So if you disappear out of view, 
             E                      B 
you know that I will never say goodbye. 
            E               A 
And though I try to forget it, 
        E 
you will make me call your name 
A                          B 
and I'll shout it to the blue summer sky. 


      E              A 
We may never meet again,  
E                               B 
so shed your skin and lets get started. 
        E   A        B 
You will throw your arms around me. 
              E   A        B 
Yeah, you will throw your arms around me. 


             E     A      B 
Yeah, you will throw your arms around me. 

(repeat to fade)