Day 385 - Day 020

“I just want something to hold on to… And a little of that Human Touch”

Human Touch: Bruce Springsteen, Human Touch

 

This song has so many great words to it, that it is hard to pull out the one specific line that touches me the most and then describe why. I think it’s really been different lines for different times in my life.

 

I think what I always have taken away from this song is that we all go through periods of disillusionment with the world. We lose sight of what is right and wrong- good and bad. Who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. We go through periods where we reach out for things to comfort us, but in the end the thing that will fill us the most is that Human Touch.

 

That Human Touch is the sparked connection of a greater love that resides in all of humanity… and that human touch is not something to be nursed, sheltered or hidden away. It’s a gift we embrace and are supposed to share… to make this world a better place: to make this place more like the Love within us.

 

 

Lyrics:

You and me we were the pretenders

We let it all slip away

In the end what you don't surrender

Well the world just strips away

 

Girl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangers

Ain't gonna find no miracles here

Well you can wait on your blesses my darlin'

But I got a deal for you right here

 

I ain't lookin' for praise or pity

I ain't comin' 'round searchin' for a crutch

I just want someone to talk to

And a little of that Human Touch

Just a little of that Human Touch

 

Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town

Ain't no bread from heavenly skies

Ain't nobody drawin' wine from this blood

It's just you and me tonight

 

Tell me, in a world without pity

Do you think what I'm askin's too much

I just want something to hold on to

And a little of that Human Touch

Just a little of that Human Touch

 

Oh girl that feeling of safety you prize

Well it comes at a hard hard price

You can't shut off the risk and the pain

Without losin' the love that remains

We're all riders on this train

 

So you've been broken and you've been hurt

Show me somebody who ain't

Yeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargain

But, hell, a little touchup

and a little paint...

 

You might need somethin' to hold on to

When all the answers, they don't amount to much

Somebody that you could just to talk to

And a little of that Human Touch

 

Baby, in a world without pity

Do you think what I'm askin's too much

I just want to feel you in my arms

Share a little of that Human Touch

Feel a little of that Human Touch

Give me a little of that Human Touch

 

Done