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 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 prize 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