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
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
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
she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel
hunger pays a heavy prize to the falling gods of speed and steel
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