It all began the day I found   That from my window I could only see a piece of sky   I stepped outside and looked around   I never dreamed it was so wide or even half as high      Papa, can you hear me?   Papa, can you see me?   Papa, can you find me in the night?      Papa, are you near me?   Papa, can you hear me?   Papa, can you help me not be frightened?      Looking at the skies   I seem to see a million eyes, which ones are yours?   Where are you now   That yesterday has waved goodbye and closed its doors?      The night is so much darker   The wind is so much colder   The world I see is so much bigger   Now that I'm alone      Can you hear me praying   Anything I'm saying   Even though the night is   Filled with voices?      I remember everything you taught me   Every book I've ever read   Can all the words in all the books   Help me to face what lies ahead?      The trees are so much taller   The night feels so much smaller   The moon is twice as lonely   And the stars are half as bright      Papa, how I love you   Papa, how I need you   Papa, how I miss you   Kissing me good night      I felt the most amazing things   The things you can't imagine if you've never flown at all   Though it's safer to stay on the ground   Sometimes where danger lies there the sweetest of pleasures are found      No matter where I go   There'll be memories that tug at my sleeve   But there will also be   Mortal question, yet mortal belief      Oh, tell me where   Where is this someone who will turn to look at me   And want to share   My every sweet-imagined possibility      The more I live, the more I learn   The more I learn, the more I realize   The less I know      Each step I take, papa, I've a voice now   Each page I turn, papa, I've a choice now   Each mile I travel only means   The more I have to go      What's wrong with wanting more?   If you can fly then soar   With all there is, why settle for   Just a piece of sky?      Papa, I can hear you   Papa, I can see you   Papa, I can feel you   Papa, watch me fly