I don't know where the time has gone, suddenly here we are alone,   Only a word before you go, everyone's waiting;   So many friends to say goodbye, so many tears they'll have to cry,   So many wings to help you fly where you are going;      And now a plane must take away my child that life has found,   And you will be up in the sky, and I'll be on the ground,   Sending my love with you tonight;      I will be waiting, I will be waiting, here for you, here for you;      I don't know where the years have gone,   Suddenly here, and you have grown,   It was like only yesterday when you were so young;   But here is the day we had to see, always the same eternally,   This is the way that it must be, now it is your world;      And so a plane must take away my child that time has found,   And you will be up in the sky, and I'll be on the ground,   Sending my dreams with you tonight;      I will be waiting.....I'm trying not to show,   But seeing you go, is the hardest thing that I have known;      I will be waiting, don't worry 'bout me, I'll be alright *   I will be waiting, don't worry 'bout me, I'll be alright,   Here for you, here for you,      I don't know where the years have gone.....