Touch Me In The Morning

Touch Me In The Morning, recorded by Diana Ross in the year 1973. It is to this day her "longest charting record" and it hit number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 on August 18, 1973. The images with this song are photos of Diana Ross together with Michael Jackson; it's a little bit of a tribute but mainly I just wanted to add it to my play list.

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
(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 good-bye 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
(Hey!)
Wasn't it yesterday
We used to laugh at the wind behind us?
Didn't we run away and hope
That time wouldn't try to find us (Didn't we run)
Didn't we take each other
To a place where no one's ever been?
Yeah, I really need you near me tonight
'Cause you'll never take me there again
Let me watch you go
With the sun in my eyes
We've seen how love can grow
Now we'll see how it dies
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...

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[MikeBat68]

What a great song ! Fantastic performance & the producer is a genius !!

[SH000FLY]

@MikeBat68 according to wiki: "This song was conceived by then-unproven songwriter and producer Michael Masser, who had been recruited by Motown CEO, Berry Gordy, and A&R chief, Suzanne de Passe, to create another huge hit recording three years after Ross' successful solo debut album, for which she recorded a 1970 cover of Ashford and Simpson's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". Masser teamed up with the proven ballad lyricist Ron Miller to write this song." Yes, he is a genius!

[SH000FLY]

@MikeBat68 Michael Masser also wrote Miss You Like Crazy, Hold Me, Saving All My Love For You, Didn't We Almost Have It All, It's My Turn, The Greatest Love Of All, If Ever You're In My Arms Again, and many others -- always with a co-writer, he's a huge talent. Inducted into the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame in 2007

[SH000FLY]

She's one of the best singers alive, as well as a good hearted woman with soul, an unbeatable combo. Thanks, bassmanjoe :)

[ldonhawk]

I Love This Video!!! A great song, a tribute to the relationship b/w Michael & Diana. Memories to last a lifetime. Thank you for posting this.

[SH000FLY]

@ldonhawk You are welcome, thank you for listening and watching.

[rickw1100]

Michael Masser- a VERY soulful white guy. Genius!

[OnCloudNine62]

a flood-gate of memories just opened!

[pawsjones]

Thank you for sharing this is one of Diana's best !!!

[cerulee]

I think I love this song.

[bassmanjoe]

Now this is music you can remember, timeless!!! This is a work of art...