My Father Lyrics - This Mortal Coil

My father always promised me 

That we would live in France 

We'd go boating on the Seine 

And I would learn to dance 

We lived in Ohio then 

He worked in the mines 

On his dreams like boats, we knew 

We'd sail in time 

My sister's all grew up and went away 

To Denver and Cheyenne 

Marrying their grownup dreams 

The lilacs and the man 

I stayed behind the youngest still 

Only danced alone, hoping, hoping 

That my father's dreams would someday 

Take me home 

I live in Paris now 

My children dance and dream 

Hearing the ways of a miner's life 

In words they've never seen 

I sail my memories of home 

Like boats across the Seine 

And watch my father's eyes 

Watching the setting sun 

Set in my father's eyes again