Single Review: Kim Wilde "The Touch"

Kim Wilde meets the perfect guy and not much else in the bungled single.

The synthesizer holds onto its note for about 30 seconds and then moves at a frenetic pace. It sets an obsessive tone. She remarks that fate is a strange matter and life will throw people at any tiime.

"Funny what fate can bring you/And the things that it can do/Funny how life can change you/When you least expect it do."

In the pre-chorus, an apathetic Wilde says she felt alienated from people. They were an endless stream of the same face but with a different voice. She didn't have an interest in anything. However, she says that he is the one that fits her.

"I wasn't into anyone/I danced in a sea of faces/I wasn't into anything/But baby you know/Together we're."

In the chorus, she says the touch of his hand upon her own overpowers her senses. His soft gaze melts her.

"So right/The touch that I get from you's incredible/So right/The touch that I get/When I look at you."

In the second verse, she recants everything she had said. She now thinks perhaps it's the slight brush of his hand that does it for her. She adds perhaps that he likes her, too. But wasn't she certain that he was a longtime love. Where did the doubt from?

"Maybe the touch you give me/Is the look I get from you/Maybe the spell it's weaving/Is the way you feel it too."

In the pre-chorus, she dumps him. He wonders if he will try to get her back. She says that she's likely to stay in a bad relationship than in a great one.

" Maybe you'll stop and walk away/Don't look at me to follow/I wouldn't run for anyone/But baby you know/Together we're."

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