Dark Eyes

Oh, the gentlemen are talking

and the midnight moon is on 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 lovers pearls

and all I see are dark eyes

A cock is crowing far away

and another soldiers deep in prayer

Some mothers child has gone astray

she can't find him anywhere

But I can hear another drum beating

for the dead that rise

Whom natures 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 unrecognised

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 price 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