Marc Cohn - Perfect Love lyrics

Down by the boathouse at Shaker Lake

When there wasn't nothing but love to make

They were two young lovers wishing on the stars above.

Well, they carved their initials in an old birch tree

With a heart and an arrow and a sixty-three

You had to be blind not to see...

It was a perfect love

It was a perfect love

Ooh, yeah, yeah.

Well, they worked one summer together at the '64 World's Fair

They met Robert Kennedy there

That was right before the fall

And they saved up a little bit of money for his career

And they talked about the future underneath the giant sphere.

And all around them, the little voices were singing

It's a small world after all

Yes it is, small world after all. And it was...

Perfect love

It was a perfect love

Ooh, yeah, yeah.

(Under the moon and stars above

It was a perfect love)

Now they were dizzy from dancing on Rockaway Beach

They came to Rockaway

And everything they dreamed of was still within reach

Dreaming... dreaming as the years roll by

Like they always do.

Well, they had their share of hard times, too

But whatever they were, they never let it get them down.

Now, they just go walking down a country lane

See the leaves changing in the misty rain

And only one thing remains the same

Just a perfect love

Ooh, yeah, yeah

(Under the moon and stars above

It was a perfect love)