Intro I reach out my arms and I touch you. (touch you) With soft words I whisper your name. (your name) I held you right on the tips of my fingers, but I let it slip a right through my hands. My eyes had a vision of your sweet lips. (sweet lips) Yielding beneath my command (my command). I held you up on the tips of my fingers, but I let it slip a right through my hands. Oh somebody took you when I wasn't looking And I should have known, said I know from the start That it's a long, long way from the tips of my fingers but I let it slip a right through my hands. Yes I held your love on the tips of my fingers But I let you slip right through my hands.