Dear Miami, I Love You Lyrics

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