Judy Collins Dark Eyes Lyrics

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.