[ti:Me and the Sky (《来自远方》音乐剧插曲)] [ar:‘Come From Away’ Original Broadway Cast] [al:Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Me and the Sky - ‘Come From Away’ Original Broadway Cast [00:02.17]Lyrics by:Irene Sankoff/David Hein [00:04.34]Composed by:Irene Sankoff/David Hein [00:06.52]My parents must have thought they had a crazy kid [00:13.46]'Cause I was one of those kids [00:16.84]Who always knew what I wanted [00:21.03]They took me down to the airport [00:23.54]To see all the planes departing [00:25.61]Watching them fly something inside of me was starting [00:29.28]I was eight when I told them that I'd be a pilot [00:35.20]But I was too young and too short [00:37.24]And there were no female captains [00:39.06]And my dad said be patient [00:40.92]He said Just see what happens [00:42.79]But I took my first lesson came down from the sky [00:46.10]And told my father I'd fly for the rest of my life [00:49.83]And I got my first job flying for a mortician [00:53.31]In a tiny Bonanza just a corpse and me [00:56.68]Five dollars an hour for flying dead bodies [01:00.20]I had to climb over their [01:01.76]Faces just to get to my seat [01:03.89]Then suddenly the wheels lift off [01:08.55]The ground is falling backwards [01:12.58]I am suddenly alive [01:18.49]Suddenly I'm in the cockpit [01:21.83]Suddenly everything's changed [01:25.35]Suddenly I'm not too young or too short [01:28.42]And the passengers in the back don't complain [01:32.45]Suddenly I'm flying company charters [01:35.92]Suddenly everything's high [01:39.49]Suddenly there's nothing in between me and the sky [01:49.25]American Airlines had the prettiest planes [01:55.78]So I applied as a flight engineer [01:59.34]But the world war II pilots they all complained [02:03.11]They said girls shouldn't be in the cockpit [02:05.69]Hey lady hey baby hey why don't you grab us a drink [02:10.30]And the flight attendants weren't my friends back then [02:13.36]And they said are you better than us do you think [02:18.44]But I kept getting hired [02:21.68]And the world war II crew they retired [02:25.00]And the girls all thought much higher of me [02:29.52]1986 the first female American captain in history [02:36.10]Suddenly I'm in the cockpit [02:39.47]Suddenly I've got my wings [02:43.19]Suddenly all of those pilots protesting me [02:46.77]Well they can get their own drinks haha [02:50.21]Suddenly there's no one saying stay grounded [02:53.65]Looking down passing them by [02:57.19]Suddenly there's nothing in between me and the sky [03:02.97]Suddenly I've got an all female crew [03:06.36]The news caught and made headlines across the world [03:10.26]Suddenly it stopped [03:11.73]No one saying you can't or you won't [03:14.22]Or you know you're not anything 'cause you're a girl [03:18.41]Suddenly I'm getting married [03:20.87]And we're putting pins on the map where we've flown [03:25.34]Suddenly I am a mother [03:28.25]And suddenly shocked at how much they've grown [03:32.35]Suddenly I'm wondering how my parents would feel [03:36.27]Seeing me teaching men to be pilots [03:39.42]'Cause suddenly I am a senior instructor [03:42.83]And somehow I'm 51 [03:46.61]Suddenly I'm flying Paris to Dallas [03:50.09]Across the Atlantic and feeling calm [03:53.57]When suddenly someone on air-to-air traffic says [03:57.15]At 846 there's been a terrorist action [04:00.29]And the one thing I loved more than anything [04:03.28]Was used as the bomb [04:08.19]Suddenly I'm in a hotel [04:13.84]Suddenly something has died [04:21.22]Suddenly there's something in between me and the sky