Dark Eyes   





Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside 

They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide 

I live in another world where life and death are memorized 

Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls and all I see are dark eyes. 

 

A cock is crowing far away and another soldier's deep in prayer 

Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere 

But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise 

Whom nature's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes. 

 

They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes 

They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I'm sure it is 

But I feel nothing for their game, where beauty goes unrecognized 

All I feel is heat and flame, and all I see are dark eyes. 

 

Oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel 

Hunger pays a heavy prize to the falling gods of speed and steel 

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies 

A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.