Song i just died in your arms tonight

Songfacts®:

• This was written by Cutting Crew lead singer Nick Van Eede, who told Songfacts it was inspired by a real relationship. Says Nick: "Yes, I cannot tell a lie. It's a song written about my girlfriend (who is actually the mother of my daughter). We got back together for one night after a year apart and I guess there were some fireworks but all the time tinged with a feeling of 'should I really be doing this?' Hence the lyric, 'I should have walked away.'

  I know it sounds corny but I awoke that morning and wrote the basic lyrics within an hour and wrote and recorded the demo completely within three days."

• Richard Branson started Virgin Records in England in 1972, but it wasn't until 1987 and the release of Cutting Crew's Broadcast album that Virgin broke through in America. Nick Van Eede told us about his experience with the record company: "We were signed to Siren records which was part of Virgin so we were always a little bit on the outside but it was the '80s and they certainly put their money where their mouth was. We were flown to New York for the initial recordings of the album and this is where we got a great recording of 'I've Been In Love Before.' Then we were flown to Australia to shoot videos... all a bit crazy really. We gave them their first US #1 with '(I Just) Died In Your Arms' but the company soon outgrew us as music stars were changing in the early '90s. We wrote one slightly veiled song having a pop at US A&R antics in our 'Between A Rock And A Hard Place' from The Scattering (1989) album. I sang, 'I got a brick but I can't find a window,' as they continually blocked our album's release for months making us lose so much momentum."

• Mika used a great deal of this song on his 2007 track "Relax (Take It Easy)." Says Nick: "I know as well as any other song writer that these things can happen and its just the way of the composing world. I am completely confident Mika stumbled in to it accidentally and I am proud to be given the co write... Kerching!!!"

• This song has been sampled or interpolated by a number of rap and R&B artists. Jay-Z did a remake of the song, and Amerie used it on her track "I Just Died."

• This was used in the Stranger Things episode "Suzie, Do You Copy?" (2019) and the Cold Case episode "Lonely Hearts" (2006). It also appears in these movies:

  The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
  Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
  Hot Rod (2007)
  Never Been Kissed (1999)

• In a 2020 Planters commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in 2020, Matt Walsh and Wesley Snipes are riding the Peanutmobile, singing along as this song plays on the radio. Mr. Peanut is driving. When he swerves to avoid an armadillo, the vehicle goes off a cliff and the three are left hanging by a tree. To save the others, Mr. Peanut plunges to a fiery death. His elegy reads: "Mr. Peanut. 1916-2020."

Lyricist：Nicholas Eede

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must have been something you said
I just died in your arms tonight

I keep looking for something I can't get
Broken hearts lie all around me
And I don't see an easy way to get out of this

Her diary it sits on the bedside table
The curtains are closed, the cats in the cradle
Who would've thought that a boy like me could come to this?

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must've been something you said
I just died in your arms tonight

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must've been some kind of kiss
I should have walked away, I should have walked away

Is there any just cause for feeling like this?
On the surface I'm a name on a list
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com
I try to be discreet but then blow it again

I've lost and found, it's my final mistake
She's loving by proxy, no give and all take
'Cos I've been thrilled to fantasy one too many times

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must've been something you said
I just died in your arms tonight

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must been some kind of kiss
I should have walked away, I should have walked away

It was a long hot night
She made it easy, she made it feel right
But now it's over the moment has gone
I followed my hands not my head, I knew I was wrong

Oh I, I just died in your arms
Oh I, I just died in your arms

"(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
Single by Cutting Crew
from the album Broadcast
B-side	"For the Longest Time"
Released	July 1986[1]
Recorded	February 1986
Genre	Pop rock
Length	4:39
Label	Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Nick Van Eede
Producer(s)	Terry Brown John Jansen Cutting Crew
Cutting Crew singles chronology
"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" (1986) "I've Been in Love Before" (1987)
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"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" is the debut single by the English pop rock band Cutting Crew, released in July 1986 as a single from their debut studio album, Broadcast. The song was written by frontman Nick Van Eede, produced by Terry Brown, John Jansen and the band, and mixed at Utopia Studios in London by Tim Palmer.

The power ballad[2] is the band's biggest hit, peaking at number one in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Finland, and reaching the top five in the UK, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Background and writing[edit]

The words "I just died in your arms tonight" allegedly came to Van Eede while he was having sex with his girlfriend,[3] the French phrase la petite mort, or "the little death", being a metaphor for orgasm. After writing down his version of the phrase, he later used it as the opening line to the song as well as using it as the chorus.

Music video[edit]

There were two music videos produced. The North American version featured artistic fragmented shots using a model, with the band performing to camera. The UK version was filmed in a studio, both in color as well as black and white, while only the latter had been made available in Apple Music stores, from countries like Canada[4] and Brazil.[5]

On 29 October 2020, Van Eede announced, through Cutting Crew's official Facebook page, that a remastered HD edition of the "UK version" music video was uploaded to the band's former Vevo official account on YouTube.[6]

2020 reissue[edit]

In early 2020, the song was rerecorded and reissued as in an orchestral incarnation as well as in several other versions as the lead single for the second Cutting Crew compilation album, Ransomed Healed Restored Forgiven,[7] accompanied by a new music video uploaded to YouTube,[7] through the official account of the band's new label, August Day. The new release for the hit has been through an 8-track EP released to digital platforms.[8][9] There is also a physical release, on CD, offered as a solo release and also included as part of the limited deluxe version of the new greatest hits album, both sold through the band's official webstore.[10]

Chart performance[edit]

First released in Britain, the song peaked at number four on the UK charts in September 1986. Upon its release in the United States, the previously unknown band's debut single shot to number one on 2 May 1987, and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached number four on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, number 24 on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and (in a remix version) number 37 on the Hot Dance/Club Play chart.[11] The song spent three weeks at number one in Canada.

Certifications[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ "Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms (1986, Vinyl)". Discogs.
2. ^ "Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart and the 20 other best power ballads". The Telegraph. 23 July 2015.
3. ^ Bronson, Fred (2001). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. ISBN 0-8230-7677-6. Retrieved 25 January 2007.
4. ^ "(I Just) Died in Your Arms by Cutting Crew on Apple Music". Apple Music Canada. January 1986. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
5. ^ "(I Just) Died in Your Arms de Cutting Crew na Apple Music". Apple Music Brasil. January 1986. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
6. ^ "I know you have all seen it before..75 million of you, but here is the new HD version online...sounds (especially good) and looks much better. (...)". Official Cutting Crew's Facebook page. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
7. ^ a b Smith, Lawrence (31 March 2020). "Cutting Crew return with a stunning orchestral album: a conversation with Nick Van Eede". Hastings and St. Leonards Observer. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
8. ^ "(I Just) Died in Your Arms by Cutting Crew on Spotify". Spotify. 27 March 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
9. ^ "(I Just) Died in Your Arms [Orchestral Version]". Apple Music. 8 November 1989. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
10. ^ "CD & Vinyl". Cutting Crew official website. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
11. ^ "Cutting Crew, "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" Chart Positions". Billboard. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
12. ^ "Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
13. ^ Belgian peak Archived 9 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
14. ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
15. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 7 June 1987. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
16. ^ "Cutting Crew: (I Just) Died in Your Arms" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat.
17. ^ "Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". Top 40 Singles.
18. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Cutting Crew" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
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20. ^ "SA Charts 1965 – March 1989". Retrieved 2 September 2018.
21. ^ "Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". Singles Top 100.
22. ^ "Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". Swiss Singles Chart.
23. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". GfK Entertainment charts.
24. ^ "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Airplay Top 100. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
25. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
26. ^ "Top 100 Singles". Music Week. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 24 January 1987. p. 24.
27. ^ "Australian Music Report No 701 – 28 December 1987 > National Top 100 Singles for 1987". Australian Music Report. Retrieved 11 December 2019 – via Imgur.
28. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". collectionscanada.gc.ca.
29. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1987/Top 100 Songs of 1987". www.musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
30. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". Music Canada. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
31. ^ "Danish single certifications – Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". IFPI Danmark. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
32. ^ "British single certifications – Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died in Your Arms". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

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