My Eyes Adored You - Barry Manilow

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

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

(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)

So close, so close and yet so far