Dark Eyes

Album: Empire Burlesque (1985)
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  • 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 lover's 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 hear another rum beating for the dead that rise
    Whom nature's beast fear 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, 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 prize to the falling god 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. Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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  • Jeff from Lacey, WashingtonI've always felt this was one of Dylan's most under-appreciated songs, both in terms of quality and theme. It's a statement of the worldview started expressing way back in his early days, a distrust for the superficial world of the everyday and a love and devotion for the world of his muse. Whatever he meant by it, it's one of the beautiful songs he ever put down, in my humble opinion.
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