Lay Your Hands On Me

Album: Here's to Future Days (1985)
Charted: 13 6
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  • This old life seemed much too long
    Little point in going on
    I couldn't think of what to say
    Words just vanished in the haze

    I was feeling cold and tired
    Yeah, kinda sad and uninspired
    When it almost seemed too much
    I see your face and sense the grace
    And feel the magic in your touch

    Oh, lay your hands
    Lay your hands on me
    Oh, lay your hands, ooh
    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, lay your hands on me

    Back and forth across the sea
    I have chased so many dreams
    I have never felt the grace
    That I have felt in your embrace

    Oh, I was tired and I was cold
    Yeah, with a hunger in my soul
    When it almost seemed too much
    I see your face and sense the grace
    And feel the magic of your touch

    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, lay your hands on me
    Oh, lay your hands, ooh
    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, lay your hands on me, oh

    Now, you made me feel so good
    Yeah, like I never ever thought I would
    You know you make me feel so strong
    And now our laughter just goes on and on

    So c'mon lay your hands on me
    'Cause close to you is where I really wanna be
    And if it ever gets too much
    I see your face and sense the grace
    And feel the magic in our touch

    Oh, lay your hands
    Lay your hands on me
    Oh, lay your hands, ooh
    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, lay your hands on me

    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, oh, lay your hands on me
    Oh, lay your hands
    Lay your hands on me
    Oh lay your hands, ooh

    Oh, lay your hands
    I wanna lay your hands on me
    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, lay your hands on me
    Oh, lay your hands
    Oh, lay your hands on me
    Oh lay your hands on me, ooh
    Oh, lay your hands

    Writer/s: ART PORTER, CHRIS CUBEN-TATUM, LARON WILBURN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Moosehead from Sci was a sophomore in high school when this came out! loved it then. love it now. still on my old ipod!
  • Stoner / Womanizer from Madison, Wiwell! ...this tune symbolizes a lot in my memories ...have u ever been to madison? if u like beautiful women..go there...good weed too!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1985 {November 23rd} the Thompson Twins performed "Lay Your Hands On Me" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time "Lay Your Hands On Me" was in it's first of two weeks at position #6 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, #6 was also it's peak position on the chart, and it spent twenty weeks on the Top 100...
    And on the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "King for a Day", and four months later on March 16th, 1986 it reached #8 {for 1 week} on the Top 100...
    Between 1982 and 1989 the Sheffield, England band had eleven records on the Top 100 chart, three made the Top 10...
    Besides the above two records, their third Top 10 was "Hold Me Now", it peaked at #3 {for 2 weeks} in late April of 1984...
    In their native England they charted nineteen times, five made the Top 10 with "You Take Me Up" being their biggest hit, it peaked at #2 {for 1 week} on April 15th, 1984, the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie...
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