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, she can't find him anywhere
but i hear another rum beating for the dead that rise
whom nature's beast fear 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, 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 prize to the falling god 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.