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 lovers' 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 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.