Alison Krauss – Let Me Touch You For A While

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It's been a long time coming
As you shed a lonesome tear.
Now you're in a wonderama,
I wonder what you're doing here.

The flame no longer flickers.
You're feeling just like a fool.
You keep staring into your liquour,
Wondering what to do.

I don't hardly know you,
But I'd be willing to show you
I know a way to make you smile.

Let me touch you for a while.

I'm gonna ruin my black mascara.
You're drinking whiskey when it should be wine.
You keep looking into that mirror,
But to me you're looking really fine.

I don't hardly know you,
But I'd be willing to show you
I know a way to make you laugh at that cowgirl
As she's walking out your door.

I know a way to make you smile

Just let me whisper things
You've never heard before.
Just let me touch you, baby,
Just let me touch you for a while.

I don't hardly know you,
But I'd be willing to show you
I know a way to make you smile.

It's been a long time;
Let me touch you for a while.

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    General Comment:I think it's funny that two people think this song is "cute." The song is very sexy.
    Flag fallendown2on April 29, 2012   Link
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    Song Meaning:The song is about a guy that always "picks the wrong girl". He comes into the bar again and again ALONE because he always ends up that way. She is a bartender and watched him again and again doing this to himself over and over (in the video). She says "You are drinking whiskey when you should be drinking wine" Meaning you are killing pain when the pain shouldn't be there in the first place. People often drink whiskey to kill pain and wine to celebrate or romantically. That is a cliche in all country/bluegrass music. She is saying stop wasting your love and time on "fly by night cowgirls" that keep bringing you down and give me a try for something real.
    Flag Cal16on July 18, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:She has an amazing voice! This is SUCH a pretty song! This song is about making someone feel better by distracting them from their issues....particularly lost love. It's like that saying...."The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else." =)
    Flag RoseTeaCup1216on January 24, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:It's really too bad that this has never happened in the history of humanity, because GOD DAMN could I use it! hahaha
    Flag jawstoneon September 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song. Anyone who has just listened to it should go on youtube and see it performed live. Seriously, it'll bring it to a whole new level.

    "I don't hardly know you", I think, means she doesn't know him very long or very well but she knows enough to know how to make him smile. Some people can do that. It seems to have sexual implications too - I know a way to make you smile.

    Alison Krauss didn't actually write it, I forget who did, but it's the same guy who wrote "The Lucky One".

    Her band are amazing. Jerry Douglas and Dan Tyminski kick ass. So talented.
    Flag ErrorCoreon July 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:It's sweet. But what does "I don't hardly know you" means: that she hardly knows him, that she don't know him or that she knows him quite well? It seems a bit double to me.
    And I don't get the "You're drinking whiskey when it should be wine" - I mean, if you like whiskey more... but OK, if it goes as fast as wine you might get into trouble.
    Flag tugiton February 07, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:AK is not Country. . .she is BLUEGRASS, there is a difference, believe me! Same feel, but different roots.
    Flag gatormanon March 30, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:AK DOES Rock! She plays a mean fiddle!!
    Flag Nurse0Samon February 23, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:Somebody finally managed to retrofit blue grass for the 21st Century! Alison Krauss rocks! (Even though she doesn't)
    Flag Commandroidon December 14, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:What a beautiful voice, and great musicianship. "So Long, So Wrong" and "New Favorite" are 2 of my favorite albums of all time. Country and bluegrass songs are often times very simple, and looking for a deeper meaning in them can lead you away from the actual meaning that is right there in front of you. Make no mistake about it, she is not talking about making someone smile by thinking about her...it is about a bold and forthright woman who wants to share her desire for pleasure with a man who is apparently in a state where he could really use it........
    Flag philw3000on June 06, 2003   Link

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