Dark Eyes Lyrics - Joan Osborne

When 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 

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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 

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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