Gentlemen are talking, midnight moon's on the riverside Drinking up and walking, it's time for me to slide I live in another world and life and death are memorized Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls, I see all dark eyes
The cock is crowing far away, soldiers, soldiers 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 'Cause nature's beast fears as they come, I see all dark eyes
They tell me to be discreet for intended, intended purposes They tell me revenge is sweet, they stand, 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
A French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel Hunger pays a heavy price to falling Gods of speed and steel Oh, time is short and the days are sweet And passion rules the arrow that flies And one million faces at my feet, I see, I see all dark eyes