My Father - Pearls Before Swine

My father always promised us 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

All my sisters soon were gone to Denver and Cheyenne

Marrying their grownup dreams, the lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still, only danced alone

The colours of my father’s dreams faded without a sound

And I live in Paris now, my children dance and dream

Hearing the words of a liner’s life in words they’ve never seen

I sail my memories of home like boats across the Seine

And watch the Paris sun as it sets in my father’s eyes again