En Vivo 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