She released three studio albums during her initial solo run - Naked in 1996, Woman In Me in 1997 and Elbow Beach in 2000 - and had enormous success that comprised twelve Top 20 singles, the last being "Pandora's Kiss" in 2003.
After spending several years as a television presenter and also raising her kids, Louise returned to the world of music in 2019 with "Stretch", her first single in 16 years. Followed by its accompanying studio album in 2020, Louise released the well-received Heavy Love, which she promoted with a UK tour.
Arms Around the World
Louise Lyrics
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All around the world
My love will always be the same
New York or Tokyo
Rome Paris Egypt or Spain
Wherever I am I will always think of you
No matter baby
Get to you yeah
When I think of you
My love can fly
[Chorus]
You and I
Gonna wrap our loving arms
All around the world
Gonna capture all the love in the universe
Gonna make it shine
And wrap our arms around the world
(You and I)
I swim the ocean
To be with you every night
I cross the desert
And bring to you the Sahara light
(Oh oh, yeah yeah)
Wherever I am
I will always come back to you
As long as you're there for me, baby
I'll find you, yeah
When I think of you
My love can fly
[Chorus]
Oh oh, yeah
Around the world
And wrap our arms around the world, the world
I never thought that I
Could find someone
I never thought that I
Could reach the sun
I never thought that I
Could feel your love
All around the world
[Chorus]
Louise's song "Arms Around the World" is a beautiful ballad about loving someone no matter where they are, and never feeling too far away or disconnected from them. The song starts off with the declaration that love can be universal - it knows no borders or boundaries - and that it's always the same, no matter where you are in the world. The singer asserts that whenever she thinks of her loved one, her love can "fly" to them, meaning that she feels so connected to them that they are practically with her wherever she goes.
The chorus repeats a message of togetherness and love, with the idea that "you and I" will "wrap our loving arms all around the world" and "capture all the love in the universe." This is Louise's way of expressing that her love for her partner is limitless, and that it can extend to encompass the whole world. She also suggests that their love has the power to "make it shine," meaning that their connection can bring positivity and light to others.
Line by Line Meaning
All around the world
No matter where I am in this world
My love will always be the same
My love for you will remain constant
New York or Tokyo
Whether I'm in a busy city like New York or Tokyo
Rome Paris Egypt or Spain
Or a beautiful city like Rome, Paris, Egypt, or Spain
Wherever I am I will always think of you
I'll always have you in my thoughts no matter where I go
No matter baby
Nothing can change my love for you
My love will always
My love will always find a way
Get to you yeah
To reach you and be with you
When I think of you
Just the thought of you
My love can fly
Makes me feel like I can do anything
You and I
Together, you and me
Gonna wrap our loving arms
We'll embrace each other with love
All around the world
No matter where we are in the world
Gonna capture all the love in the universe
We'll hold all the love in the world in our embrace
Gonna make it shine
We'll make the love in the world shine with our love
And wrap our arms around the world
We'll embrace the world with our love
I swim the ocean
I'll cross any distance
To be with you every night
Just to be close to you every night
I cross the desert
I'll go through any obstacle
And bring to you the Sahara light
To bring you the beauty of the Sahara
Wherever I am
No matter where I go
I will always come back to you
I'll always find my way back to you
As long as you're there for me, baby
As long as you're by my side, my love will never fade
I'll find you, yeah
I'll always find my way back to you
Around the world
No matter where we go in the world
I never thought that I
I never imagined that
Could find someone
I could find someone to love like you
Could reach the sun
I could achieve the impossible
Could feel your love
I could experience your love
All around the world
No matter where I am in the world
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JOHN HOLLIDAY, LOUISE NURDING, TREVOR STEEL
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@STEJTHEGREATEST
Ahhh, I love waking up on these cold, dark, wintry early mornings, Louise, and then having my laptop on in my bed, with the rest of my room being pitch black behind it. ;*P It's so cosy. ;*P And it's kinda strange with me being a Christian that I'm something of a creature of the night, isn't it, being afraid of the Sun and all????? Sometimes when it's all dark and quiet outside and everyone is asleep while I'm online, I almost feel like I can imagine the world has ended, and I'm living in a timeless bubble, sheltered from it all. ;*P
I've always loved Savage Garden's To the Moon and Back song, but one thing that always strikes me as odd about the night time city version of their music video for the song, is how all the so-called ostracised rejects who congregate together at the end of the video ARE ALL FRESH-FACED AND GOOD LOOKING!!!!! None of them looked like a TRUE REJECT, like me!!!! And although Darren Hayes likely wrote the song, speaking about his own feelings of isolation and not belonging anywhere, what with being a homosexual and all, but he was FREAKISHLY GOOD LOOKING himself, I think, and the bottom line is, people are more likely to be favourably disposed to good looking people than people they don't find attractive. Life is generally easier for people whom are physically attractive, I think, since they get more, better opportunities, and people are less resistant, less distrustful, and more receptive towards them and whatever they say/suggest, I think. Plus, good looking men who women fancy can display all the VERY WORST, MOST VULGAR PERSONALITY TRAITS, and women will be making excuses for them, claiming they're "really good people deep down," and that they just have to search hard to FIND that goodness!!!!! Whereas men who look like me can be the nicest, most compassionate, most loving souls imaginable, and women will make out like it's all a lie, and that we're really just despicable perverts, after one thing!!!!! To me, that's just their over-complicated way of saying, "YOU'RE UGLY. I'M NOT INTERESTED. BYE!!" No wonder so many women end up in relationships with men who beat, and eventually kill them, and they STAY WITH THEM, feeling like they need to "behave better" in order to bring that loving, caring, affectionate side out of their men!!!!!! Stupid, stupid women.
I love the atmosphere of the nighttime city version of the To the Moon and Back music video. One of my favourite surreal visuals from it is Darren Hayes singing in a woman's ear on a speeding train as everyone stands around, staring like mindless zombies, totally oblivious. I'd want to do that to you, Louise. ;*P And even though I've always found the "surprised face of the moon" scary, its frequent, large appearances in the night time sky in the video really adds to that melancholic, bittersweet feeling so much, and makes it seem less intrusive and more welcome. It all feels very Batman and Gotham City-like, and I love that overall moodiness. People like Darren Hayes make me wish I was talented. ;*( And though I write, I generally find that writing is a HIGHLY UNDERAPPRECIATED CRAFT in this day and age of impatience, short-attention spans and wide-spread stupidity. I suppose it doesn't help that most people probably surf the Internet on phones and tablets these days with tiny displays, and no one wants to read HUGE WALLS OF TEXT ON THEM, having to scroll down loads of times!!!! Or maybe I'm just boring, and I'm deluding myself in my belief of my mastery of writing?????? That'd mean I have ABSOLUTELY NO TALENT WHATSOEVER!!!!!! Oh well, at least I try!!!
You might wonder, Louise, why I'm so overtly stalkerish, with my frequent messages to you women I fancy/desire, and I don't instead try to "play it cool" by feigning only slight interest, like all the pick-up artists and "cool alpha males" suggest???? It might make me seem less needy, less clingy, less demanding, less insecure and less pathetic, eh???? In truth, I tried that in the past in my late teens and twenties, but I found IT JUST WASN'T ME!!!!!! It was boring to me, unfulfilling, tedious AND IT DIDN'T WORK!!!!!! A dating expert named David DeAngelo recommended a "cocky and funny" approach to picking up women, which typically epitomised making cheeky, potentially offensive remarks to women to show that us men AREN'T AFRAID OR DAUNTED BY THEIR BEAUTY, but it just led to them insulting me most of the time when I'd do that, with me not being good looking, and all. Of course, David used to say that if women responded negatively with insults to his material, that it was a case of women "testing us", to see whether or not we fell apart in the face of their hostility, so I'd argue back and keep on mocking them until they blocked me. -_- Yet for YEARS, I'd keep up this method of approaching women, thinking I just WASN'T GETTING IT RIGHT, and that it took time and effort to master, and that it was so hard for me because I was so stupid, unimaginative and insecure!!!!!!! Einstein apparently said "the definition of madness is to endlessly do the same things, expecting different results", but the truth is, I JUST LACKED CONFIDENCE IN THE EXECUTION OF MY APPROACH, WHILST STILL BELIEVING THE FORMULA WORKED!!!! Y'see, I've always been a very clumsy person, highly liable to bungle things!!!!!
No, to me, the most fulfilling way to deal with women online is to EMBRACE AND ACCEPT THE FACT THAT I'M A NATURAL BORN OBSESSIVE!!!!!!! IT'S JUST WHO I AM, ON A DEEP, FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL!!!!!! And I don't feel like I'm IN THE WRONG anymore to be this way!!!!!! I think that if you women can't accept me for the wide-eyed obsessive psycho I am, THEN YOU WOMEN AREN'T ALL AS OPEN-MINDED AND LIBERAL AS YOU ALL CLAIM TO BE, ALWAYS VOTING FOR LEFT WING POLITICAL PARTIES THAT PROMISE EQUALITY FOR ALL, AS IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE YOU ALL VOTING FOR THEM AND THINK, "AREN'T THOSE WOMEN SO GOOD, CARING AND COMPASSIONATE????" To me, when a person has to show they're a "good person" by who they vote for, it tells me THEY KNOW THEY AREN'T GOOD PEOPLE IN MOST OTHER ASPECTS OF THEIR LIVES!!!!!!!
That's another of the reasons why I believe I'M IN THE RIGHT to be so blatantly obsessive and stalkerish with the women I fancy!!! I see it as a way of finding out what you women are REALLY LIKE INSIDE, as opposed to what you all put forward for public consumption, with what you write, or say about yourselves, or how you talk and present yourselves in interviews in the case of celebrities I've fancied!!!! Lots of women and celebrity women sound REALLY NICE AND CARING when they speak publicly, but it ends up just being a sham I find once I've made an effort to find out myself FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH, and at first, I was concerned the same could've happened with you, Louise. You ALWAYS sound so nice, humble and appreciative for everything you have when you speak publicly, and yet when I'd hear about your obsession with beauty and style, I worried that you might've been a shallow person after all, and that you might've thought, "WHAT IS THIS FREAK DOING IN MY VIDEO COMMENT SECTIONS, ALWAYS MESSAGING ME???????" but I feel like that isn't the case now. I feel like you really are the good, lovable, adorably cute, innocent girly girl you come across as in interviews and TV appearances. That's another of the reasons I think my stalkerish tendencies are A GOOD THING!!!!!! THEY SEPARATE THE SHALLOW WOMEN FROM THE GOOD, INTELLIGENT, SUBSTANTIAL WOMEN, LIKE YOU!!!!!! A shallow woman would freak out at my sheer amount of messages, TOTALLY IGNORE THE CONTENT OF THE MESSAGES, AND HIT THE BLOCK BUTTON WITHOUT HESITATION!!!!!!!! A woman with substance and depth like you can see the good behind my obsessive actions, though. That's proof that you're no brainwashed media pawn, AND DEFINITELY NO STEPFORD WIFE!!!!!!! Your mind is FAR TOO KEEN for you to be replaced by a machine.
@STEJTHEGREATEST
Sigh, there was a firework before, even though it was only about 3:45PM!!!!!!!! I can see it getting as bad as Liverpool here eventually, with kids blowing up old fashioned letter boxes with them as far back as early September!!!! I've long thought that people who are drawn to fireworks have some kind of innate terroristic desires and urges within them. I actually used to live in Alderson Road in Wavertree, Liverpool from when I was born until I was 10. You might've heard of that street in the news lately, since there was a shooting there lately, in which someone was killed by people thought to be drug dealers as he was getting out of a taxi one night. When I lived there, people weren't blasting each other into the middle of next week with 9mm pistols, but it was DEFINITELY showing alarming signs of decline, signs which I feel were FOOLISHLY ignored by the people in power, AND NOW LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED!!!!!!
I'm sure you remember me telling you about the towering older kids I was terrified of running into who used to roar at me, Louise???? Well, in addition to that, back in Alderson Road, we had this family living across the road from us, and although the parents were nice enough, they seemed to be scared of their two oldest male kids. ;*( They'd often play football against our house wall in the street at the side of our house, since we lived in a corner, and sometimes they'd throw eggs at our windows!!!!! One time after they did that, their dad personally cleaned them off our window while his oldest kid held the bucket for him, but the younger of the two older kids (whom I thought was the worst) was just sitting in his doorstep with his friends, laughing at smirking as his dad cleaned our window!!! Everytime they'd see me in the street, they'd yell the word "gonk" at me, which I'm guessing must be a word to describe people with learning difficulties or something????? Only when I was at high school and people would mock me there, sometimes kids who'd never met me before would automatically assume I was from the special needs learning department (or the unit) part of the school. Still, I don't care if people underestimate me anymore. That's their mistake.
Sometimes, we'd call the police on these troublesome kids from Alderson Road, like one time close to November the 5th when they put a firework through our letterbox. It didn't go off, but we had a dog who could've been killed by such a thing, with what they're like for rushing towards things that come through letterboxes. Sadly the police would be useless, no doubt spewing lines about how they "couldn't do anything against mere kids," as the kids in question would be fiddling around with the police cars, as the police probably pretended not to notice it, being the cowards that they are. It wouldn't have surprised me if in the end, the police were forced to say something like, "Excuse me kids, have you finished with our cars?????? We have important work we'd like to get on with!!!!!" And knowing those kids, they probably would've been like, "We'll be done in 5 minutes."
Personally, if I'd had any say in the matter, THE KIDS WOULD'VE BEEN TAKEN THE STATION AND GIVEN A SCARE!!!!! I WOULD'VE SHOWN THEM THE CELLS, AND LET THEM SEE THE HARDENED CRIMINALS IN THOSE CELLS, AS THOSE CRIMINALS GRABBED THE BARS IN WHITE-KNUCKLED GRIPS, CLAMOURING TO GET AT THE KIDS WITH WIDE-EYED, INTENSE LOOKS IN THEIR EYES!!!! Indeed, I feel like this kind of discipline would've saved the area, in addition to the life of the younger of those two troublesome kids!!!!! Y'see, over ten years after we left the area, we heard through correspondence with one of our old neighbours that the younger of those two kids had died. It turns out that as he was approaching 30, he'd become a major alcoholic, and was regularly drinking copious amounts of vodka, and all kinds of other stuff. The works, apparently. Perhaps even more interestingly, not long before his death, he'd been badly beaten by these people with serious ill will towards him, the results of which had left him on crutches, and he'd been living in great fear in the time before his death.
My theory as to why the Alderson Road area has ended up like it has, with gunfire tearing through the streets, and nearby houses being sold for like, £1 is because the police and the inept government NEVER DID A STINKING THING to tackle the festering evil within those streets as it was starting to rear its ugly head while all the troublesome types there were still young and impressionable. Instead, the police had to let them grow up, feeling like they were untouchable, didn't they?????? And because I feel that an affinity for fireworks in people indicates destructive, terroristic desires and urges within them, it doesn't really surprise me that such hooligans would trade in their "harmless" fireworks for guns and drugs as they get older, without any real discipline or restraint in their lives!!!!!! That's why I have ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY WHATSOEVER for the police, or the people living in those areas now. THEY ALL CHOSE TO BE COWARDS, AND BURY THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND WHEN THE NASCENT EVIL WAS STILL IN ITS FORMATIVE STAGES IN THAT AREA, BECAUSE IT WAS THE EASY ROAD TO TAKE!!!!!!! BUT BECAUSE COMFORT ZONES OFTEN END UP BEING VERY UNCOMFORTABLE PLACES TO BE, WELL, NOW THEY'RE REAPING WHAT THEY'VE SOWN, AREN'T THEY?????? And I think it couldn't have happened to nicer people.
The use of pyrotechnics in modern day show business is another of the reasons why I feel like showbiz is inherently evil. SHOW BUSINESS COULD DO THE RIGHT THING, AND MAKE A STAND AGAINST THE FIREWORKS INDUSTRY BY BOYCOTTING IT TO WEAKEN THE INFLUENCE THAT THESE DESTRUCTIVE, WEALTHY CRIMINALS HAVE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!! But what does show business do???? It panders to these corporations, advertising them by making their products integral parts of showbizzy acts, and shows extensive live footage of new year firework displays, and such. The dangers posed to performs sometimes when the scheduled pyrotechnics have occasionally gone haywire seem to mean nothing to the powers that be in show business who seem to benefit financially from it all. If you're a proponent of modern day show business, Louise (which you probably are, given your compulsion to perform), you might think I'm just talking out of my rear end, talking about "safe, highly tested" pyrotechnics being a danger to performers, eh???? Well I specifically remember once, during my days listening to Radio City years back, when that band Point Break were being interviewed, and they were talking about freaking out one time with unexpected pyrotechnics going off during one of their performances, and they claimed that despite falling backward in terror, they still kept singing their song, like troopers. Now I know only Liverpudlians know about Radio City, but I'm sure SOMEONE ELSE must remember this interview????
@STEJTHEGREATEST
You want to know Louise how I'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN GOD EXISTS?????/ Because on bonfire night, I was hoping and praying all the cats and animals in the area wouldn't be stressed by it all, and afterwards, my parents said it was one of the quietest bonfire nights they'd ever experienced!!!! Admittedly, most of the "activity" took place during the weekend before November 5th, but I hear even that wasn't as bad as it's been on other years!!!!!! And then there's been plenty of times when I've been worried about thunder, as I've never really tested my headphone/fan technique during thunder, so the idea of thunder still makes me a lot more nervous than firework times of year, and yet for YEARS now, the only thunder I've ever heard here has been way in the distance!!!! I DO MY BEST TO AVOID SEEING OR HEARING WEATHER REPORTS DURING SUMMER MONTHS, but on the off chance when I do catch a glimpse of news headlines sometimes talking about thunder passing through Britain, I'll be nervous, and it'll near enough totally kill my mood as I get a massive knot in my stomach, but sure enough, I only ever hear it in the distance from my location!!!!! It almost feels like there's a big, protective bubble over my location!!!!!!
I remember one time in the early Summer of 2009 when my OCD had started getting REALLY BAD, and I'd heard about thunder sweeping through the country, and I was having trouble sleeping at nights, getting pains in my stomach from worrying about it, but alas, I heard it was kinda bad in other places, but near enough unnoticeable here!!!!! My thoughts back then were, "I think God feels sorry for me," but really, we're all in that position of dire need, desperately needing God's help and support, aren't we???? I feel the reason some of us get that help while others don't is because SOME OF US are willing to humble ourselves and reveal our weaknesses and inadequacies, whilst others get caught up in their own personal pride, and pretend to be like Superman and claim TOTAL INDEPENDENCE, a state which I believe to be impossible to achieve, and DOWNRIGHT FOOLISH to try and pursue. WE'RE ALL DEPENDENT OR SOMEONE OR SOMETHING, AND I DEFY ANYONE TO PROVE OTHERWISE!!!! We're all shades of grey in this regard.
On facebook, I join a lot of Christian groups, and occasionally share nice pictures from those groups with uplifting quotes from the Bible, but being that I feel like a scared little child trapped inside a big, fat man's body, I also sometimes share the somewhat more severe pictures and quotes from those sites which seem more like warnings than uplifting quotes, and as such, one of my aunties apparently told my mother it seems to her like I'm part of a cult or something, posting bursts of Christian quotes to my profile every now and then, giving me the impression that maybe her faith in God isn't really where it needs to be?????? And as such, whilst maybe she isn't bothered by the fireworks, I don't know, but on November 5th, she'd had to take one of her dogs for surgery at the vets, and by the time she got her dog home, it was dark. Just as they were getting into the house, there was apparently a huge, loud firework outside which made the dog panic, run upstairs, bump into a wall and tear her stomach open, bleeding all over the place. ;*( Whereas my parents said there were no huge, loud fireworks here. Of course, some might say that kind of thing depends on the types of people living in an area, but I feel like THROUGH FAITH IN GOD, we can keep unsavoury, undesirable people such as those troublesome, unruly types away from us. There's no shame in being openly fearful, needy and timid I think, as they say TRUE HEROISM AND BRAVERY IS A RESULT OF PEOPLE FIGHTING THEIR FEARS TO PERFORM GOOD DEEDS. Anyone who has no fear is really incapable of bravery, since they've no fear to overcome, have they????
Do you believe Genesis happened, as told in the Bible, Louise????? When I used to debate against lots of atheists online, one of them was making out Genesis "was particularly indefensible," and told me "even most Christians" don't try to debate in defense of Genesis, almost like he was trying to fill me with the impression it was "such a lost cause," yet I feel like it's possibly THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN THE BIBLE, as it teaches us how harmful and evil the thirst for knowledge is, and how we should instead, trust God as our Father figure to tell us all we need to know to live happy, harmonious lives!!!! Atheists I would debate against would often ridicule the idea of a talking snake, convincing Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge, but you know what I think???? I THINK THAT IN ORDER FOR A TALKING SNAKE TO BE ABLE TO TRICK EVE INTO EATING FROM THAT TREE, THEN ALL ANIMALS BACK THEN MUST HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF TALKING IN A LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBLE TO HUMANS. After all, you'd think Adam and Eve would've been JUST A LITTLE BIT SCARED AND SUSPICIOUS if suddenly this talking snake was trying to lead them astray when all the other animals were INCAPABLE of speech, wouldn't you????? And given that the Garden of Eden was a peaceful, idyllic, safe place where Adam and Eve could live in peaceful co-existence with ALL the animals of the Earth, no matter how dangerous those animals might be now, I feel it's logical to surmise THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO LANGUAGE BARRIER BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS BACK THEN!!!!!! After all, a language barrier is a highly divisive thing which prevents us from opening up a peaceful dialogue with others, and establishing diplomatic relations, isn't it????? WHO KNOWS, MAYBE IF HUMANS AND LIONS COULD SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE, A PERSON COULD CONVINCE A LION TO SPARE HIS LIFE IF THE LION WAS ON THE WARPATH, BUT THEY SPOKE THE SAME LANGUAGE??????
It's when I bear the above realisation in mind that it seems perfectly feasible to me to assume that before Eve was tricked into eating "the apple," by the talking snake, she might very well have been stroking the mane of a male lion, complimenting him on it, only for him to reply in a deep, baritone voice, "Why thank you, kind human!!!!! I admire your tall, lean, graceful figure myself!!!"
@nimit2535
This song raises your vibration, it's so uplifting and Louise's vocals are like velvet.
@allknowingoracle3277
Definitely the best song she ever put out. 😍
@maxfrasier
2nd - best is 2 faced
@mardus_ee
I got it in an "Extra Music Compilation" CD as part of some radio game sometime in the late 1990s.
@jaywest3734
I prefer her ballads.
@christopherjeffery8691
The 1990s was a excellent decade for music and film's
@dirrty06
Such a great positive song who’s here in 2022 enjoying this?
@graeme4540
Not ashamed to say i love this track back in the day and still do. Cheers
@Forever_Nostalgic
This is the very first record I ever bought...in Woolies...on cassette.
I ache to go back to the 90's/my childhood.
@adamamunu3046
Aww, yeah I wish I could go back too.