Touch

Album: Touch (1971)
Charted: 71
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  • Touch me in the morning
    Then just walk away
    We don't have tomorrow
    But we had yesterday

    [Chorus:]
    (Hey!)
    Wasn't it me who said that
    Nothing good's gonna last forever?
    And wasn't it me who said
    Let's just be glad for the time together?
    It must've been hard to tell me
    That you've given all you had to give
    I can understand you're feeling that way
    Everybody's got their life to live

    Well, I can say goodbye in the cold morning light
    But I can't watch love die in the warmth of the night
    If I've got to be strong
    Don't you know I need to have tonight when you're gone?
    'Till you go I need to lie here and think about
    The last time that you'll touch me in the morning
    Then just close the door
    Leave me as you found me, empty like before

    [Chorus]

    If I've got to be strong
    Don't you know I need to have tonight when you're gone?
    'Till you go I need to hold you until the time
    Your hands reach out and touch me in the morning
    (Mornings where blue and gold and we could feel one another living)
    Then just walk away
    (We walked with a dream to hold and we could take what the world was giving)
    We don't have tomorrow,
    (There's no tomorrow here, there's only love and the time to chase it)
    But we had yesterday
    (But yesterday's gone my love, there's only now and it's time to face it)
    Touch me in the morning Writer/s: FRANK EDWARD WILSON, PAMELA JOAN SAWYER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, RALEIGH MUSIC PUBLISHING, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Kristin from Bessemer, AlThe Jackson 5 also recorded a cover version of this song - when this song was released as a single by the Supremes, Motown was slowly beginning to lose interest in the group.
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