Genesis Songs - Invisible Touch Lyrics

Genesis - Invisible Touch

Genesis - Invisible Touch Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Invisible Touch
Released: 1986

Invisible Touch Lyrics

Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long
But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong, but now I know
She has a built in ability
To take everything she sees
And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her.

She seems to have an Invisible Touch yeah
She reaches in, grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.

I don't really know her, I only know her name
But she crawls under your skin, you're never quite the same, and now I know
She's got something you just can't trust
It's something mysterious
And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her.

She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
She reaches in, grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.

She don't like losing, to her it's still a game
Though she'll mess up your life, you'll want her just the same, now I know
She has a built in ability
To take everything she sees
And now it seems I've fallen, fallen for her.

She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
She reaches in, grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.
Writer/s: RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL/COLLINS, PHIL/BANKS, TONY
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Invisible Touch Song Chart

Phil Collins wrote the lyrics, which are about a woman who holds power over the singer. He desires her even though he feels there is something bad about her.

Genesis had 17 Top 40 hits in the US, but this was their only #1. They never had a #1 in their native UK.

The Invisible Touch album marked Genesis' complete transformation from complex, theatrical music (starting when Peter Gabriel was lead singer) to condensed pop songs. They lost some fans along the way, but gained many more.

This was referenced in the movie American Psycho. A homicidal maniac named Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale) gives a lecture to the man he is about to kill on how this album is their undisputed masterpiece. He kills him while "Hip to Be Square" by Huey Lewis & the News drowns out the sound of the murder.

In 1986, Genesis released a collection of their music videos called "Visible Touch."

Genesis' former lead singer, Peter Gabriel, had his first #1 hit, "Sledgehammer," a few weeks before this went to #1.

When this song topped the Billboard Hot 100, it was the first instance in the history of the chart of a group following an individual band member to the summit. Prior to this song, Phil Collins had already notched the first four of his seven #1 solo singles.

This song was borne out of an inspirational guitar riff Mike Rutherford played while working on "The Last Domino," the latter half of "Domino," a two-part track on the Invisible Touch album. It very nearly became a part of that song, but it had a different character that stood out to lead singer Phil Collins. He explained: "As soon as he started playing that I started singing, 'she seems to have an invisible touch.' At that moment we just knew that was a great hook, and then we just sort of wrote a song around it."

This was featured on the animated TV series American Dad! in the 2012 episode "Old Stan in the Mountain" and the TV series The Angry Video Game Nerd in the 2006 episode "Bible Games."

MTV had a lot to do with this song's success. Genesis was one of the network's biggest stars at the time, and they put this video in hot rotation. In the clip, the band members film each other with hand-held cameras and act rather silly. Phil Collins sings into his drumstick and mock directs, sending up the whole concept of a music video. It was cheap but effective, as it helped personalize the band and played to Collins' acting talents - he performed in stage productions when he was younger.

The video was directed by Jim Yukich, who worked on many of the Genesis clips, including "Land Of Confusion," which won a Grammy for Best Concept Music Video.