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 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. --- Dark Eyes - Bob Dylan