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The song My Father is performed by This Mortal Coil in the album named Filigree & Shadow in the year 1998 .

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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



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This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow

Filigree & Shadow
Jul 1998
  1. Velvet Belly
  2. The Jeweller
  3. Ivy And Neet
  4. Meniscus
  5. Tears
  6. Tarantula
  7. My Father
  8. Come Here My Love
  9. At First, And Then
  10. Strength Of Strings
  11. Morning Glory
  12. Inch-Blue
  13. I Want To Live
  14. Mama K (1)
  15. Filigree & Shadow
  16. Firebrothers
  17. Thais (1)
  18. I Must Have Been Blind
  19. A Heart Of Glass
  20. Alone
  21. The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks Its Thumb
  22. Drugs
  23. Red Rain