Hayes Carll - Beautiful Thing lyrics

Columbus Avenue and Eighty-Seventh Street
My heart was racin' when I got
The word that we would meet
Aw babe, it was a beautiful thing
A summer thunderstorm, we had to run and hide
An empty phone booth
Tangled up and stoppin' time
Aw babe, it was a beautiful thing

The world stopped turning every time I
Heard you call my name
I had a feeling that nothing's
Gonna be the same

You were a bon vivant, I was a libertine
We lit a fire like neither one
Of us had ever seen
Aw babe, it was a beautiful thing

That size-two pencil skirt a-ridin'
Up your thigh back of a taxicab, good lord
You're blowin' my mind
Aw babe, it was a beautiful thing

I hate to tell ya
But I think we might have caused a scene
Let 'em all stare
'cause it really don't matter to me

You've been living like a queen for a long
Long time i wonder
Could I be your king? Would you be my bride?

Then came the twelfth of May
It was a big affair
You wore the perfect dress and
Everyone we love was there
Aw babe, it was a beautiful thing
I said, hey now babe
It was a beautiful thing