Underneath the engine's roar Tarmac lights, your old car Screaming out what we'd kept in Oh, those landing strip confessions The night had hours to waste away Our bottles would ring out the end of day What's your secret, what's your dream? A truth or dare but never coming clean Those nights, out by the runway So far from the sky, out by the runway Behind your eyes I saw the truth You almost told me what I already knew Now I wonder why it wasn't said We were so close to the edge Turbine engines spinning heat Tower signals unreceived A double life, a man, a wife Your own way to cope, your truth hidden in your soul All those nights, out by the runway So far from the sky, out by the runway And then they said "gone too soon" And ever since ... i'm missing you and missing our youth Wishing I had said so much more to you While you were here and still far from the sky Behind that veil you hid behind I was wrong to think we'd still have time To talk about that fear you had of flying Those nights, out by the runway Still so far from the sky, out by the runway It's where we used to play and dream the nights away By the runway