My Father - Pearls Before Swine

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 colour's 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