It's been raining here

I can smell it in the air

And I love this southern city like I spent my childhood there

It is inevitable that we will soon be saying our goodbyes

But I'll always have your skyline in my eyes



I have loved and lost all around your city blocks

And the years have gone and painted me

like leaves against the rocks

And in my haste to make a new life where I'm going I don't know

I will turn around and wave then I am gone



And as those big jet engines ignite

And take me over the mountains alone I'm in flight

I think of the love in my life

I look out on the night and I am gone



Way up here it all is clear and I'm not afraid

of living with these tears

Way up here it all is clear and I'm not afraid

of living in these years



I have watched my friends scatter out across the land

And I wonder if I'll live so long to see them all again

And if I don't well it don't matter they will love me all the same

For the hearts that I love most remain unchanged



I have dreamed of a time when I'd leave this all behind

But I thought that I'd be stronger or I hoped that I'd be blind

But now I know that I am neither and it hurts to say goodbye

I will always have your skyline in my eyes



And as those big jet engines ignite

And take me over the mountains alone I'm in flight

I think of the love in my life

I look out on the night and I am gone





Way up here it all is clear and I'm not afraid

of living with these tears

Way up here it all is clear and I'm not afraid

of living in these years

So clear

Oh all is clear

All is clear

All is clear