Perfect Love

Album: Marc Cohn (1991)
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  • 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.
    Well, 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.
    Yeah, 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, whoa. Ooh, yeah, yeah.

    Just a perfect love
    Ooh, yeah, yeah.
    (Under the moon and stars above it was a perfect love) Writer/s: MARC COHN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Volker from Hamburg"Loosely based on the arc of the love affair between one of my older brothers and his wife. The song follows them from Shaker Lake (in Cleveland where my family is from) to Rockaway Beach (where my sister-in-law grew up) to the '64 Worlds Fair (they really DID meet Robert Kennedy there), all the way to an autumnal country lane... somewhere in New England let's say." Marc Cohn on Facebook
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