My Father (Remastered)

My Father (我的父亲) (Remaster) - 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

All 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 grown up 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 never say

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