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.