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