Me And The Sky Lyrics - Come From Away Cast

My parents must have thought 

They had a crazy kid 

Cause I was one of those kids 

Who always knew what I wanted 

They took me down to the airport 

To see all the planes depart 

And watching them fly something inside of me was started 

I was eight when I told em 

That I'd be a pilot 

But I was too young and too short 

And there were no female captains 

And my dad said "Be patient" 

He said "Just see what happens" 

But I took my first lesson 

Came down from the sky 

And told my father I'd fly for the rest of my life 

And I got my first job 

Flying for a mortician 

In a tiny bonanza 

Just a corpse and me 

Five dollars an hour 

For flying dead bodies 

I had to climb over their faces 

Just to get to my seat 

And suddenly the wheels lift off 

The ground is falling backwards 

I am suddenly alive 

Suddenly I'm in the cockpit 

Suddenly everything's changed 

Suddenly I'm not too young or too short 

And the passengers in the back don't complain 

Suddenly I'm flying company charters 

Suddenly everything's high 

Suddenly there's nothing in between 

Me and the sky 

American airlines 

Had the prettiest planes 

So I applied as a flight engineer 

But the world war two pilots 

They all complained 

They said "Girls shouldn't be in the cockpit 

Hey lady, hay baby, hey 

Why don't you grab us a drink?" 

And the flight attendants weren't my friends back then 

And they said "Are you better than us do you think?" 

But I kept getting hired 

And the world war two crew 

They retired 

And the girls all thought much higher of me 

1986 the first female American captain in history 

Suddenly I'm in the cockpit 

Suddenly I've got my wings 

Suddenly all of those pilots protesting me 

Well they can get their own drinks 

Suddenly there's no one saying stay grounded 

Looking down passing them by 

Suddenly there's nothing between me and the sky 

Suddenly I've got an all female crew 

The news caught and made headlines across the world 

Suddenly it stops 

No one saying "You can't" or "You won't" 

Or "You know you're not anything cause you're a girl" 

Suddenly I'm getting married 

And we're putting pins on the map where we've flown 

Suddenly I am a mother 

And suddenly shocked at how much they've grown 

Suddenly I'm wondering 

How my parents would feel 

Seeing me teaching men to be pilots 

Cause suddenly I am a senior instructor 

And somehow I'm fifty-one 

Suddenly I'm flying Paris to Dallas 

Across the Atlantic and feeling calm 

When suddenly someone on air to air traffic 

Says at eight forty-six there's been a terrorist action 

And the one thing I loved more than anything 

Was used as the bomb 

Suddenly I'm in a hotel 

Suddenly something has died 

Suddenly there's something in between 

Me and the sky