Gentlemen are talking, midnight moon's on the riverside
Drinking up and walking, it's time for me to slide
I live in another world and life and death are memorized
Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls, I see all dark eyes

The **** is crowing far away, soldiers, soldiers 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
'Cause nature's beast fears as they come, I see all dark eyes

They tell me to be discreet for intended, intended purposes
They tell me revenge is sweet, they stand, 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

A French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel
Hunger pays a heavy price to falling Gods of speed and steel
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet
And p***ion rules the arrow that flies
And one million faces at my feet, I see, I see all dark eyes