Well, hello there, sweet to see you   Like your colour, how you doin'?   I've been battered and bewildered   In the beauty of your ruins      Flash, flash and I am blinded   By the fact that you've been born   Feels like fiction life goes on   Brown eyes are gone      Silence is a virtue   I was taught so I agreed   Conversation half forgotten   Is the hole I hold in me      And all our language and expression   Is decimated by decree   The sound of song dies in the dawn   Brown eyes are gone      Descended slowly on the steps of the cathedral   Where I kissed you   Remembered candles lit with meaning I imposed   But that escaped you      With your brown eyes and your blue jeans   I heard the chiming of the clocks   Kick out the shifting shuffling rhythm   Of your docs      Hit the road with my compadre   Saw the city incomplete   We were tossed and torn and tumbled   In your famous foreign streets      I felt so fearless and forgotten   No one numbered nothing neat   The son has shone, we still belong   Brown eyes are gone      So farewell then Senorita   Pianos played and set the tone   I was singing like a servant   To the tune of telephones      I wish you freedom and forgiveness   And a time that is your own   Blue is the colour, mine's the moment   Brown eyes are gone      Blue is the colour, mine's the moment   Brown eyes are gone