My Father-This Mortal Coil

[00:01.600]My Father -This Mortal Coil [00:51.350]My father always promised us [01:00.80]That we would live in france [01:09.500]Wed go boating on the seine [01:19.110]And I would learn to dance [01:28.840]We lived in ohio then [01:37.400]He worked in the mines [01:47.940]On his dreams like boats [01:53.120]We knew we would sail in time [02:17.770]All my sisters soon were gone [02:26.700]To denver and cheyenne [02:35.770]Marrying their grownup dreams [02:45.940]The lilacs and the man [02:54.980]I stayed behind the youngest still [03:03.720]Only danced alone [03:12.830]The colors of my fathers dreams [03:21.570]Faded without a sound [04:03.172]And I live in paris now [04:12.152]My children dance and dream [04:21.452]Hearing the ways of a miners life [04:31.432]In words theyve never seen [04:40.982]I sail my memories of home [04:49.342]Like boats across the seine [05:00.30]And watch the paris sun [05:15.10]As it sets in my fathers eyes again