BARRY MANILOW lyrics - My Eyes Adored You

(Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan)



[Originally by The Four Seasons]



[Chorus:]

My eyes adored ya

Though I never laid a hand on you

My eyes adored ya

Like a million miles away from me

You couldn't see how I adored ya

So close, so close and yet so far



Carried your books from school

Playin' "make-believe you're married to me"

You were fifth-grade, I was sixth

When we came to be

Walkin' home every day over Barnegat Bridge and Bay

Till we grew into the me and you

Went our separate ways



[Chorus]



Headed for city lights

Climbed the ladder up to fortune and fame

I worked my fingers to the bone

Made myself a name

Funny I seemed to find

That no matter how the years unwind

Still I reminisce 'bout the girl I miss

And the love I left behind



[Chorus]



(My eyes adored ya)

All my life I will remember

(Though I never laid a hand on you)

How warm and tender we were way back then, whoa, whoa, baby

(Like a million miles away from me

You couldn't see how I adored ya)

Oh, the feeling, sad regrets

(So close, so close and yet so far)

I know I won't ever forget ya, my childhood friend



(My eyes adored ya)

(Though I never laid a hand on you)

(My eyes adored ya)

(Like a million miles away from me

You couldn't see how I adored ya)



[Fade]

So close, so close and yet so far