This Mortal Coil - My Father.

For my wife.
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.
All 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 grown up 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 never say.
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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• majorsnag

[brittonsimon]

So beautiful just got Filigree and Shadow today after having lost my other cd,,,,so happy to listen to all the perfect, magical songs again!Thinking George Michael covered this, smart man, this song is lush!

[majorsnag]

@brittonsimon i realy need to invest in a couple of there albums again, i lost them years ago n' im gutted

[majorsnag]

@brittonsimon i have finnaly got the albums again...bittorrent is marvelous

[Locust1313]

They have a box set with It'll End In Tears, Filigree and Shadow, Blood, and one disc of the originals from the artists they redid these songs from. Check out Emmy Lou Harris' song Til I Gain Control Again. It is better that TMC's version. Filigree and Shadow was my favorite, still have the LP's. If you ever did lsd to this you would be blown away. This song My Father sticks in your head years after. True Art

[majorsnag]

i should put up some pictures to this..i do it no justice with fuckin' clouds....

and i have taken pretty much everything listening to this...haha..it's beutiful int it.

lmao..beutiful...get me

[Neurozumim]

Put pictures of fathers with their children.

It's an homage to fatherhood. But the skies are beautiful.

[majorsnag]

yeah i have done about fifty..lol..i didnt know how to make them when i did this..hence shitty blurred thumnails..im doing the story

[Jonnobaas]

This is the only band whose songs on their albums make me cry consistently. This one makes my heart bleed. I just find it hard to tell other people about this kind of thing. Either one is in the zeitgeist & vibe of this or one is not. So, on the one hand yes, this is lacerating. On the other hand, listening to this late at night does nothing more than reinforce the sad feeling that for nearly 52 years I have felt apart from others Bullied & physically abused in private school, called names.

[seaclouds]

Filigree & Shadow has to be one of the finest albums ever put together, from start to end it flows with such tremendous emotional scope it never fades. This song is a highlight, Alison Limerick's voice is just sublime, the piano, cellos, lyrics....love it...

[grimsmith1]

Beautiful music, but why do so many people have to post a comment all with words from the song|? Can't you all write you're own stuff? Go back to sleep, bloody time wasters.

[Durriti66]

According to a recent interview in Mojo with Ivo, Elizabeth Fraser recorded the original vocal of this song but wouldn't let him use it. 

[hibernius]

This song always makes me cry.

[jetboyjetgirl01]

Rest in Peace JF. Your beautiful soul will always be near me when I hear this song. You loved it so much.

[harrysagma]

for my father who,once took me to Paris,-we are Greeks-where he lived for 2 years.Its his favored city of all.He passed away,in 1997,but when i see Paris, i see him,and i beleive he is watching .My dream is to live there someday...

[JarrefanErPenombra]

The piano intro and outro leaves me breathless.

[0flakey1]

my son misses me apparently. but well both go and live in thai when hes old enough so we we will not have to endure you western whores. oh! im oim irish by the way. 99 problems...no need to explain the rest....cunts

[0flakey1]

few comments about fathers who are not getting access might be appropriate. hey! fuck them as long as i get my cash..think about it slags

[Roberto33131]

SWEET

[nikbear]

Can't listen without crying,miss so many people........