Bob Dylan — Dark Eyes Empire Burlesque Alternate Take

[Verse 1] Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the moonlight’s 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Verse 3] 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 [Verse 4] 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