Calexico / Iron & Wine - Dark Eyes lyrics

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Gentlemen are talking, midnight moon's on the riverside<br />

Drinking up and walking, it's time for me to slide<br />

I live in another world and life and death are memorized<br />

Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls, I see all dark eyes<br />

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The cock is crowing far away, soldiers, soldiers deep in prayer<br />

Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere<br />

But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise<br />

'Cause nature's beast fears as they come, I see all dark eyes<br />

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They tell me to be discreet for intended, intended purposes<br />

They tell me revenge is sweet, they stand, they stand, I'm sure it is<br />

But I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized<br />

All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes<br />

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A French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel<br />

Hunger pays a heavy price to falling Gods of speed and steel<br />

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet<br />

And passion rules the arrow that flies<br />

And one million faces at my feet, I see, I see all dark eyes