Biography:
Thompson Twins were an English new wave band. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the U.S. and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson from Hergé's comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.
In 1977, the original Thompson Twins lineup consisted of Tom Bailey (born January 18
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
Cm Eb Bb F x4
[Verse 1]
Cm Eb
There's a Chinese opera on the television
Bb F
You paint your mouth with such precision
Cm Eb
You're like an angel in a morphine dream
Bb F
What matters to you just don't matter to me
[Verse 2]
Cm Eb
Here is the freak, there is the genius
Bb F
You make love like a sad Bohemian
Cm Eb
Sometimes I think you're from another world
Bb F
'Cause Jane, you're not like any other girl
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F Cm Eb Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Verse 3]
Cm Eb
And all the paper dolls with their paper hearts
Bb F
Stalk these halls, afraid of the dark
Cm Eb
But you've been living in the shadows so long
Bb F
That you close your eyes when the lights come on
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Bridge]
Eb F
Jane, Jane's got a mirror for a name
C G
If she looks in the mirror then she'll never be the same
Eb F
As the game, game she's been playing since she came
C N.C.
When she's standing in the pouring rain
[Break]
Cm Eb Bb F x2
[Verse 4]
Cm Eb
Well everybody here seems to have their own tribe
Bb F
A hand to hold or a kite to fly
Cm Eb
But they will never know the meaning of you
Bb F
'Cause they just can't see you the way I do
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Outro]
Cm Eb Bb F x2
Cm Eb Bb F x4
[Verse 1]
Cm Eb
There's a Chinese opera on the television
Bb F
You paint your mouth with such precision
Cm Eb
You're like an angel in a morphine dream
Bb F
What matters to you just don't matter to me
[Verse 2]
Cm Eb
Here is the freak, there is the genius
Bb F
You make love like a sad Bohemian
Cm Eb
Sometimes I think you're from another world
Bb F
'Cause Jane, you're not like any other girl
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F Cm Eb Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Verse 3]
Cm Eb
And all the paper dolls with their paper hearts
Bb F
Stalk these halls, afraid of the dark
Cm Eb
But you've been living in the shadows so long
Bb F
That you close your eyes when the lights come on
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Bridge]
Eb F
Jane, Jane's got a mirror for a name
C G
If she looks in the mirror then she'll never be the same
Eb F
As the game, game she's been playing since she came
C N.C.
When she's standing in the pouring rain
[Break]
Cm Eb Bb F x2
[Verse 4]
Cm Eb
Well everybody here seems to have their own tribe
Bb F
A hand to hold or a kite to fly
Cm Eb
But they will never know the meaning of you
Bb F
'Cause they just can't see you the way I do
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Chorus]
Cm Eb
Jane, Jane, tall as a crane
Bb F
You don't have to stand in the pouring rain
Cm Eb
Jane Jane, you're so strange
Bb F
Won't you come out and play with me again?
[Outro]
Cm Eb Bb F x2
Three Men In Kil (...)
Three Plus
Thrice
Thrills
Thriving Ivory