Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
I don't think that we will be pleased with this
We have waited for a long time
I recall the promises made to us
We've been patient for a long time
One touch is never enough
You gave the opening, opening
One touch is never enough
People who need people, to the back of the bus
I don't see how we could be pleased with this
We've been waiting for a long time
I recall the promises made to us
We've been patient such a long time
No one is dangerous
We are not dangerous
Unless we get a closer view
One touch is never enough
People need to move to the back of the bus
One touch is never enough
Complicated people never do what you're told to
One touch is never enough
People will need this in the back of the bus
One touch is never enough
People who need people are just people who need people
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
People who need people are just people who need people
I don't think that we will be pleased with this
We have waited such a long time
There's no way that we can be pleased with this
We've been waiting such a long time
We've been waiting such a long time
We've been waiting such a long time
This is getting sort of unreasonable
But we've been waiting a very long time
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
People who need people, to the back of the bus
No one is dangerous
No one is dangerous
Until we get a closer view
We have waited for a long time
I recall the promises made to us
We've been patient for a long time
One touch is never enough
You gave the opening, opening
One touch is never enough
People who need people, to the back of the bus
I don't see how we could be pleased with this
We've been waiting for a long time
I recall the promises made to us
We've been patient such a long time
No one is dangerous
We are not dangerous
Unless we get a closer view
One touch is never enough
People need to move to the back of the bus
One touch is never enough
Complicated people never do what you're told to
One touch is never enough
People will need this in the back of the bus
One touch is never enough
People who need people are just people who need people
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
People who need people are just people who need people
I don't think that we will be pleased with this
We have waited such a long time
There's no way that we can be pleased with this
We've been waiting such a long time
We've been waiting such a long time
We've been waiting such a long time
This is getting sort of unreasonable
But we've been waiting a very long time
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
One touch is never enough
People who need people, to the back of the bus
No one is dangerous
No one is dangerous
Until we get a closer view
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One Touch Lyrics as written by James Jeremiah Murphy Gavin Russom
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