On the first dark of the evening
The sky turned tender blue
The weather warm and easy
Like the night I met you
Was just strolling down
The main street
Feeling lonely and blue
From the bar room
round the corner
A few doors down the block
I heard an old piano
Hit a sorrowful note
Reaching me and touching me
Deep inside my soul
Touch me softly, slow and blue
Oh yeah
A little slower every time,
Umm umm
Touch me deep piano blue
And ease this aching heart of mine
Going through the doorway
Which was a weathered grey
Heard voices of jobless drunkards
Wasting another day
Just wetting themselves and
Filling the air
With an atmosphere of decay
In the dark farside corner
On the keyboard gliding away
Infatuated set of fingers
In fluent brown they played
Churning out blue melodies
With never a pause or a break
Reaching and touching me gently
With every move they made
Touch me softly, slow and blue,
Oh yeah
A little slower every time,
Umm umm
Touch me deep piano blue
And ease this aching heart of mine
Touch me softly, slow and blue,
Oh yeah
A little slower every time,
Umm umm
Touch me deep piano blue
And ease this aching heart of mine
Touch me softly, slow and blue,
Oh yeah
A little slower every time,
Umm umm
Touch me deep piano blue
And ease this aching heart of mine……