Dear Miami, I Love You

Reach toward the sky
Whisper to palm trees
Planes overhead
The shadows, they calm me
Down to the shore, South Pointe to South Beach
Watching the waves, wishing they'd take me to happiest places
Feet in the sand
Making castles and faces
With help from our parents
Oh out in the distance
Seagulls are singing
The sun so persistent
Skin bright as The Big Pink

When I was a kid I lived on 196th
Headed off to the ice rink or to Ocean and 5th
Walked hand in hand with my grandma who raised me
When I try to relive it the memory escapes me

But I hold up a shell to my ear and pray
To hear the sound of the ocean, the sound of her say
I love you, sweetie, I'm begging this shell
To play back that voice that I know so well

It's always hard to say goodbye
To Miami summers, to Miami sky
But I've spent most of my life in the 305
And my heart will be here forever

It's always hard to leave the past behind
But our paths stay parallel with power lines
Travel US1 across state lines
Used to take that trip together

Little Havana turned my dreams real big
And this magic city did its magic trick
Made mermaid stories out of manatees
Grew people-like limbs from the mangrove seeds

Nature still serves as the common religion
Would trade any flamingo for a politician
Holding breaths over train tracks, our sweet superstition
To fend off any danger, magic city magicians

It's always hard to say goodbye
To Miami summers, to Miami sky
But I've spent most of my life in the 305
And my heart will be here forever

It's always hard to leave the past behind
But our paths stay parallel with power lines
Travel US1 across state lines
Used to take that trip together

Reach toward the sky
Whisper to palm trees
Planes overhead
The shadows, they calm me
Down to the shore, South Pointe to South Beach
Watching the waves, wishing they'd take me away



Credits
Writer(s): Alexa Lash
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