And then I’ll ask your forgiveness, though I don’t know just what I’m/
Asking it for.

“Hold Me Now” by The Thompson Twins is a beautiful song from the 80s and perhaps one of the biggest radio (and video) hits from that time. The narrator is in a loving relationship, but it has seen better days…he thinks about this as he looks at a picture of himself and his love laughing. It starts to reflect on what is wrong and what needs to change. It doesn’t seem like there is anything particularly wrong with the relationship except perhaps they are taking each other for granted.

They fuss. They fight. They play games with each other. It is time to fix things or go their separate ways. He knows what he wants. He wants to fix things. He wants them to come together, stay with each other and hold each other and begin loving again.

The bass-line and keyboards of the song are special. The bass drives the song. It is mixed loudly and it had a unique beat during both the verse and chorus. Usually bass is an accompanying instrument but here it is featured and it is awesome.

Another interesting thing about this song is the use of the choir (or is that just over-dubbed voices?) during the chorus. It sounds unique and full; it drives home the message that this is the emphasis of the song…the part about loving, not about the squabbling described in the verses. The use of falsetto in the chorus for the call back is awesome: (“…if you love me hold me.”) That could be a simulation of the girls voice talking in the background to him or that could just be him getting emotional as he’s singing. Either way it works.

Hold Me Now Lyrics

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

Songwriters: Tom Bailey / Alannah Joy Currie / Joseph Martin Leeway