[05:02.00]My father always promised us [05:02.00]That we would live in France [05:02.00]We'd go boating on the Seine [05:02.00]And I would learn to dance [05:02.00]We lived in Ohio then [05:02.00]He worked in the mines [05:02.00]On his dreams like boats [05:02.00]We knew we would sail in time [05:02.00]All my sisters soon were gone [05:02.00]To Denver and Cheyenne [05:02.00]Marrying their grownup dreams [05:02.00]The lilacs and the man [05:02.00]I stayed behind the youngest still [05:02.00]Only danced alone [05:02.00]The colors of my father's dreams [05:02.00]Faded without a sound [05:02.00]And I live in Paris now [05:02.00]My children dance and dream [05:02.00]Hearing the ways of a miner's life [05:02.00]In words they've never seen [05:02.00]I sail my memories of home [05:02.00]Like boats across the Seine [05:02.00]And watch the Paris sun [05:02.00]As it sets in my father's eyes again [05:02.00]My father always promised us [05:02.00]That we would live in France [05:02.00]We'd go boating on the Seine [05:02.00]And I would learn to dance [05:02.00]I sail my memories of home [05:02.00]Like boats across the Seine [05:02.00]And watch the Paris sun [05:02.00]As it sets in my father's eyes again