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 lovers' 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 price 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.