Hold me Now - The Thompson Twins - 1983

"Hold Me Now" was written by Tom Bailey on guitar,
Alannah Joy Currie on Xylophone and
providing that Latin percussion,
and Joseph Martin Leeway on bass guitar,
providing that counterpoint harmony
in the final chorus.
It's been easily their biggest hit.

The Thompson Twins - named after the bumbling
detectives in Herge's Tintin. 


I have a picture pinned to my wall
An image of you and of me
and we're laughing, we're loving it all
Look at our life now,
we're tattered and torn
We fuss and we fight and delight
in the tears and we cry until dawn

Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start,
let loving start
Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start,
let loving start

You say I'm a dreamer, we're two of a kind
Both of us searching for some perfect world,
we know we'll never find
So perhaps I should leave here,
yeah, yeah go far away
But you know that there's no where
that I'd rather be
Than with you here today

Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start,
let loving start
Hold me now, warm my heart
Stay with me, let loving start,
let loving start

You ask if I love you, well what can I say?
You know that I do and that this is
just one of those games that we play
So I'll sing you a new song,
please don't cry anymore
And then I'll ask your forgiveness
though I don't know
Just what I'm asking it for

Hold me now (in your lovin' arms),
warm my heart (Oh my cold and tired heart)
Stay with me (Come on and stay with me),
let loving start, let loving start
Hold me now (in your lovin' arms),
warm my heart (Oh my cold and tired heart)
Stay with me (come on and stay with me),
let loving start, let loving start