This isn't an interpretation, but a story about where this song takes me.
I was 10 when Hold Me was released as a single in the US. So the literal meaning was completely lost on me at the time. But in the summer of 1982 my family was on a road trip cross-country from Virginia to Colorado. And EVERY radio station from Richmond to Denver had "Hold Me" in heavy rotation. So I heard the song about a hundred times in the four-day drive out and subsequent four-day drive home a week later.
Therefore, the imagery my brain calls up from the archives every time I hear this song is the scenery along I-64 and I-70, and the four of us crammed into the cab of a blue and silver 1979 GMC Sierra pickup.
This isn't an interpretation, but a story about where this song takes me.
I was 10 when Hold Me was released as a single in the US. So the literal meaning was completely lost on me at the time. But in the summer of 1982 my family was on a road trip cross-country from Virginia to Colorado. And EVERY radio station from Richmond to Denver had "Hold Me" in heavy rotation. So I heard the song about a hundred times in the four-day drive out and subsequent four-day drive home a week later.
Therefore, the imagery my brain calls up from the archives every time I hear this song is the scenery along I-64 and I-70, and the four of us crammed into the cab of a blue and silver 1979 GMC Sierra pickup.