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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