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

And 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 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

And all I see are dark eyes