Ohthe 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 astrayshe 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 standI 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. Ohthe French girlshe s in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel. Ohtime 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. |
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