Dark Eyes

Gentlemen are talking

Midnight moon's on the riverside

Drinking up and walking

It's time for me to slide

I live in another world

And life and death are memorized

Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls

I see I see all dark eyes

The cock is crowing far away

Soldiers soldiers 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

'Cause nature's beast fears as they come

I see I see all dark eyes

They tell me to be discreet

For intended intended purposes

They tell me revenge is sweet

They stand 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

A French girl she's in paradise

And a drunken man is at the wheel

Hunger pays a heavy price

To falling Gods of speed and steel

Oh time is short and the days are sweet

And passion rules the arrow that flies

And one million faces at my feet

I see I see all dark eyes