Judy Collins Dark Eyes
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.
