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Bob Dylan & Patti Smith: 2 Great live versions of Dark Eyes

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BD & PS

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

Dark Eyes got it’s live debut in Sydney, Australia – 25 February 1986, but it failed & and is not performed again until Boston; Massachusetts, 10 December 1995 and then as a duet with Patti Smith. It was performed 7 times in December 1995, each time as a duet with Patti Smith.

Here are 6 of the 7 performances in December 1995:

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The Orpheum Theatre
Boston, Massachusetts
10 December 1995

1995-12-10-Boston-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark

The Beacon Theatre
New York City, New York
11 December 1995

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Stabler Arena
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
13 December 1995

1995-12-13 Bethlehem-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark

The Beacon Theatre
New York City, New York
14 December 1995

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Electric Factory
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15 December 1995

1995-12-15-Philadelphia-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark

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Electric Factory
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
17 December 1995

1995-12-17-Philadelphia-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark

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

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3 thoughts on “Bob Dylan & Patti Smith: 2 Great live versions of Dark Eyes”

  1. The 11th December performance is very nice. What are they up to at the end? Did Patti ask permission to go?

      1. It looks like she could have been a bit overwhelmed and needed to leave. The almost caress of his hair, the kisses and his smile, it’s very intimate.

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