Touch Me Tonight

[billroper]

This song started, like so many songs do, with the chorus arriving and demanding to be attached to the rest of the song. It just took a while to figure out exactly what the rest of the song was, along with getting the tune into some stable state. But once you get the first verse down, everything starts to make sense...

And it's in the key of G! The nice normal key of G. Pay no attention to that Em7 and Cadd9...

Anyway, I hope you like it!

Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2025

Touch Me Tonight

I’ve been floating in the space lanes
On an orbit much too long.
Keeping the ship lined up in three planes
And writing you this song.
It’s been two months since to my sorrow
The vidstream up and died,
But I’ll be home before tomorrow
And I’ll meet you down on planetside.

(Chorus)
Touch me tonight.
There’s nothing very subtle about the words I’m singing.
Touch me tonight.
Feel like I’m in a church and all the bells are ringing.
I’m caught up in the counterglow
Reflected by your light.
I just want to know when I wake up tomorrow
That everything will be all right.

I’m heating up an MRE
Because it’s suppertime.
I’m kicking round a memory
And I’m looking for words that rhyme.
Telemetry is going through
So they know I’m in control.
Tonight I’m gonna be with you
Once I fly through this keyhole.

(Bridge)
I’m drumming on the console.
I’m tapping out the beat.
It’s time for one more barrel roll
Before this trip’s complete.

One more hour till landing.
One more verse to write.
Too many words demanding
To hit the page tonight.
I want to say the right thing
‘Cause I’ve said too much that’s wrong.
That’s why your spaceman’s writing
Another traveling song.

(Chorus twice)

Touch me tonight.