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 a 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 a 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 And all I feel is heat and flame and all I see are a dark eyes Oh the French girl shes 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 pa*sion rules the arrow that flies A million faces at my feet, but all I see are a dark eyes