Lyrics to
Touch

This version of Touch was released by Jackson 5 in 1973.

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Reach out and touch
Reach out and touch

Darlin’ just relax
You melt me like hot candle wax
One touch and my whole body melts
You just say, you say you can’t express yourself

Oh, just keep doin’ what you’re doin’
Fancy words will only ruin it
Touch (touch me)
That very special touch
If I satisfy you (if I satisfy you)
How can you satisfy me baby

Don’t you worry baby why
You see these tears of love in my eyes
I feel this love flowin’ through
Like a river girl straight from me to you

Your touch mean than words
Than any language ever heard
Touch (touch me)
That very special touch
Every brand new day (every brand new day)
I wake up wanting you the same ole way

Reach out and touch (touch me)
That very special touch
Yeah touch (touch me, touch me, touch me)
That very, very special touch baby
If I satisfy you (if I satisfy you)
How can you satisfy me

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Touch. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

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About Lyrics and Touch by Jackson 5

The lyrics for Touch are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Jackson 5. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Touch have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Touch - Jackson 5 and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Touch by Jackson 5 in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Touch" means the words set to the music of Touch, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Touch and the lyrics to Touch are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Touch, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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