Lay Your Hands On Me

No one commented on this song? I am amazed! This is easily one of my favorite Thompson Twins songs out there!

The beginning of the songs would indicate someone that is very depressed, possibly even suicidal. But as time went on, by luck or by destiny an answer came in the form of religion or love or both?

The term 'lay your hands' would indicate some sort of religious healing. It is still thought to this day that some gifted people possess the ability to heal others by concentrating and touching others in the area of affliction. In fact, modern day nursing encourages this technique and it is called "therapeutic touch".

"We were interested in the idea of group rituals of that sort, and particularly how it relates to artist, performer, and audience. And of course we're not the first people to make use of that. Many, many, many artists have employed those kind of ideas, so it's not specifically biblical.

It's nonspecifically religious. It looks at religious ritual in that way, and then draws a kind of metaphor - I've always been very fond of the kind of layered metaphor where the song can be about one thing but also about another. That's part of a really ancient and noble tradition of religious writing of music.

Typically, people talk about their love for God in a religious song, but what they're also saying is that they love someone human. It's a way of evoking that immense emotional weight into a song." -Tom Bailey

The intro and outro parts sound like a theme from Metroid. My searches yield no one else making this comparison. This song predates it by merely a year.