Released: May 3, 1973
Songwriter: Ronald Miller Michael Masser
Producer: Tom Baird Michael Masser
[Verse 1:]
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 nothin' good's gonna last forever
And wasn't it me who said
Let's just be glad for the time together
Must've been hard to tell me
That you've given all you had to give
I can understand your feelin' that way
Ev'rybody'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
[Verse 2:]
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 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
[Bridge:]
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 tie
Your hands reach out and
[Verse 3:]
Touch me in the morning
(Then just walk away)
We're blue and gold
And we could feel one another living
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)
Yesterday's gone my love
There's only now and it's time to face it
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 nothin' good's gonna last forever
And wasn't it me who said
Let's just be glad for the time together
Must've been hard to tell me
That you've given all you had to give
I can understand your feelin' that way
Ev'rybody'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
[Verse 2:]
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 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
[Bridge:]
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 tie
Your hands reach out and
[Verse 3:]
Touch me in the morning
(Then just walk away)
We're blue and gold
And we could feel one another living
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)
Yesterday's gone my love
There's only now and it's time to face it
more tracks from the album
Everything Is Everything
- I’m Still Waiting
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
- Wish I Knew
- Come Together (1982 Revelations remix)
- I’m Still Waiting (1990 Phil Chill remix)
- Baby It’s Love
- Come Together
- How About You
- Ain’t No Sad Song (Alternate lyrics)
- I Love You (Call Me)
- Ain’t No Sad Song
- Baby It’s Love (Alternate version)
- (They Long to Be) Close to You
- My Place
- The Long and Winding Road
- Everything Is Everything
- Doobedood’ndoobe, Doobedood’ndoobe, Doobedood’ndoo
- Something
From the albums
- Greatest Love Songs of the ’70s: Love Will Keep Us Together
- Touch Me in the Morning (1973)
- Diana Ross’ Greatest Hits (1976)
- To Love Again (1981)
- Diana Ross Anthology (1983 Edition) (1983)
- Diana Ross Anthology (1986 Edition) (1986)
- Their Very Best – Back To Back (1986)
- Love Songs (1987)
- AM Gold 1973 (1992)
- Voice of Love (1996)
- 100 Essential Love Songs (2004)
- Love Songs: Gold (2006)
Diana Ross popular songs
- I’m Coming Out
- Upside Down
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Ease on Down the Road #1
- It’s Your Move
- If We Hold On Together
- The Boss
- Missing You
- Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
- When You Tell Me That You Love Me
- Chain Reaction
- He Lives in You
- Love Hangover
- Touch Me in the Morning
- Do You Know Where Youre Going To
- It’s My House
- I’m Still Waiting
- A Brand New Day
- Always and Forever
- If You’re Not Gonna Love Me Right (Crenshaw Records version)
- Once in the Morning
- That’s How You Start Over
- Love Me (Japanese quadraphonic edition)
- Ain’t Nothin’ But a Maybe