This week Jim Adams has prompted us with choosing songs pertaining to Hold | Pause | Stop | Wait for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday.
I’m taking us back to the 1980’s again. My senior year in high school. Guess I’m reflecting quite a bit lately to those life-changing years. This was another song that reflected turmoil in my life as an 18 year old senior not knowing what I was going to do with my life after a huge breakup with my high school sweetheart. My heart was broken into a million pieces during these first months of 1984. This song was released in the United States the same month I was making the decision to enlist in the Marine Corps or self-destruct. Enlisting seemed like the best thing to do in February of that year. Another song that was in the MTV normal rotation.
The band name, Thompson Twins has nothing to do with anyone from the band, but was named after two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in the Belgium cartoonist Georges Prosper Remi’s (pen name Hergé) comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.
Thompson Twins is a British band that formed in 1977 as a new wave group, but switched to mainstream pop with their popularity in 1983. With a number of hits in the United Kingdom, United States and around the world, their image began to change. Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway were the 3 main group members during their most successful years. In 1993, they changed their name to Babble for their chill-out tunes but the band disbanded permanently in 1996 when Leeway left. Bailey & Currie performed as a duo for another seven years.
Tom Bailey continues to tour under the moniker “Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey”, performing in the UK and was in North America in 2016. In 2016, Bailey received the Classic Pop magazine’s “Best Live Show” award. Bailey toured the US with The B-52’s and Culture Club which was dubbed The Life Tour.
In a 2014 interview, Tom Bailey explained to Songfacts that “Hold Me Now” was written as the result of an argument between himself and Alannah Currie. He is quoted below:
We actually decided, well, this is an interesting emotional subject. What it feels like to get back together again after separation and the kind of ideas that come up and the way that emotion and physicality somehow are brought together.” – Tom Bailey
SONG FACTS
- Written by band members, Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie & Joe Leeway.
- Released on November 11, 1983 and became the band’s biggest selling single.
- The first single on their fourth studio album, Into the Gap.
- Peaked at #3 on Canada’s (RPM) chart & US Billboard Hot 100.
- Peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart.
- Certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 1983.
- First top five song for the band in Britain.
- Released in February, 1984 in the US and was the band’s highest charting song in the United States.
- Reached #1 on the Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play chart for one week in April, 1984.
“Hold Me Now”
I have a picture Pinned to my wall An image of you and of me and we're laughing, we're loving it all But look at our life now All tattered and torn We fuss and we fight and delight in the tears that we cry until dawn Oh, whoa Hold me now, whoa 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, and go far away But you know that there's nowhere that I'd rather be than with you here today Oh, whoa, oh, whoa Hold me now, whoa Warm my heart Stay with me Let loving start Let loving start, whoa Hold me now, whoa Warm my heart Stay with me Let loving start Let loving start, whoa You ask if I love you Well, what can I say? You know that I do and if this is just one of those games that we play So I'll sing you a new song Please don't cry anymore I'll even ask your forgiveness Though I don't know just what I'm asking it for Oh, whoa, oh, whoa Hold me now, whoa (Hold me in your loving arms) Warm my heart (Warm my cold and tired heart) Stay with me (Stay with me) Let loving start Let loving start, whoa Hold me now, whoa (Hold me in your loving arms) Warm my heart (Warm my cold and tired heart) Stay with me Let loving start Let loving start, whoa Hold me now, whoa (Hold me in your loving arms) Warm my heart (Warm my cold and tired heart) Stay with me (Stay with me) Let loving start Let loving start, whoa Hold me now, whoa (Hold me in your loving arms) Warm my heart (Warm my cold and tired heart) Stay with me (Stay with me) Let loving start Let loving start, whoa Hold me now, whoa (Hold me in your loving arms) Warm my heart (Warm my cold and tired heart) Stay with me (Stay with me) Let loving start Let loving start, whoa Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Tom Bailey / Alannah Joy Currie / Joseph Martin Leeway Hold Me Now lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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26 responses to “Song Lyric Sunday – “Hold Me Now” – Thompson Twins”
I nearly did this one so many memories, glad you did 💜
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Yep so many memories!!! Great minds! I haven’t gotten to all SLS today. My knees hurt so bad today I had to lay off the computer pretty much all day. I can’t pull up any video on my phone for some odd reason. 😊
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Just one of those days 💜
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💜💜💜
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I hope you are feeling better today and that your knees are less painful 💜
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I didn’t spend as much time at the computer. I will call the doctor tomorrow. They were closed today due to a holiday.
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I do hope you feel better soon.💜
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Me too! This shit is for the birds! Oh how I want to go birding! 🙂 That tied in well together!
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💜💜🙂🙂🙂
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Wow, this really takes me back — Like another song says, “The song remembers when” … Great choice 😀
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Yeah it had a large impact on me at that moment in time. Thank you! 😊
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This is a wonderful song Lisa and those lines “Oh, whoa” and “Hold me now, whoa” fit it good with my Whoa Nellie>
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Sure did and I had this written Saturday night. Great minds think alike. I still have to view the rest of SLS. Didn’t get through them all. I had a busy day on my Etsy shop yesterday. That’s a good thing. 😊
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Aww 🥰 great choice!
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Thanks Jill! 😊
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I have not heard this song for ages – it is so good!
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Thanks Mel! Talk about an emotional one for me. 😊
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Always liked this song. Havent’ heard it in ages. Thanks!
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Love, love, love this! Thanks for sharing. ☺️
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Glad you loved, loved, loved it! LOL! 🙂
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I love this song. I can play it on my ukulele. Great choice!
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I’d love to see that. Do you have a recording of you playing it on the ukulele? So fun! 😊
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I play for fun, Lisa. But if I ever record myself playing this song I’ll be sure to share it with you! Great song!
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That is very cool that you play for fun. Means you enjoy it. 🙂
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Love this song! I hear it pretty much every day on the radio, too. 🙂
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Guess you listen to the 80’s a lot! LOL! 🙂
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