My Eyes Adored You - Fred Astaire

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)

(Fade)

So close, so close and yet so far