My Father-Jamie DeRoy

[ti:My Father] [ar:Jamie DeRoy] [al:The Child In Me: Songs That Take You Back To Your Childhood, Vol. 4 - Family] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Father (我的父亲) - Jamie DeRoy [00:10.91]My father always promised us [00:15.32] [00:16.10]That we would live in france [00:20.96] [00:22.35]We'd go boating on the seine [00:26.62]And i would learn to dance [00:31.96] [00:33.26]We lived in ohio then [00:37.74] [00:38.64]He worked in the mines [00:42.10] [00:43.60]On his dreams like boats [00:46.40]We knew we would sail in time [00:55.35] [01:04.33]All my sisters soon were gone [01:08.15] [01:08.81]To denver and cheyenne [01:13.18] [01:14.30]Marrying their grownup dreams [01:18.43] [01:18.94]The lilacs and the man [01:23.61] [01:24.82]I stayed behind the youngest still [01:29.36] [01:30.10]Only danced alone [01:33.72] [01:34.68]The colors of my father's dreams [01:39.34] [01:40.00]Faded without a sound [01:46.63] [01:56.07]And i live in paris now [01:59.70] [02:00.38]My children dance and dream [02:05.35] [02:05.97]Hearing the ways of a miner's life [02:09.30] [02:10.11]In words they've never seen [02:14.73] [02:15.96]I sail my memories of home [02:20.20] [02:20.72]Like boats across the seine [02:24.54] [02:25.34]And watch the paris sun [02:29.60] [02:30.66]As it sets in my father's eyes again [02:37.41] [02:46.73]My father always promised us [02:52.12] [02:52.76]That we would live in france