Me and the Sky Lyrics by 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 departing, watching them fly, something inside of me was starting.
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."
I took my first lesson, came down from the sky, and told my father I'd fly for the rest of my life.
So 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 jut 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, hey 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 who protested me, well they can get their own drinks! Ha-ha!
Suddenly there's no one saying stay grounded, looking down passing them by!
Suddenly there's nothing in between me and the sky!