Jimmy Eat World lead singer Jim Adkins wrote this song on a plane. As he was taking off he kept looking at his girlfriend who was outside.
Sky Harbor is the airport in Phoenix, Arizona. Hence the lyrics "you are smaller getting smaller but I still see you," written as he was looking at his girlfriend while taking off.
The song was inspired by John Irving's sprawling 1989 book, A Prayer for Owen Meany. The novel tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New England town during the 1950s and 1960s.
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