[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]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[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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

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

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Stabler Arena
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
13 December 1995

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

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Electric Factory
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15 December 1995

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Electric Factory
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
17 December 1995

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

Check out:

• Bob Dylan: 4 Great live versions of Hallelujah, I’m Ready To Go (Trad.)
• Bob Dylan: 6 Great live versions of “I Want You”
• Bob Dylan: 4 Great Live versions of “The Man In Me”
• Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”
• Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Born In Time”
• Bob Dylan: 6 Great live versions of “Tomorrow Is A Long Time” (video & audio)
• Bob Dylan: 4 great live versions of “Not Dark Yet” (Video & Audio)
• Bob Dylan: Simple Twist of Fate, 10 Great live versions (Video & Audio)
• Bob Dylan: Shelter From The Storm, 10 Great live versions (Video & Audio)
• Bob Dylan: You’re A Big Girl Now, 11 Great live versions
• Bob Dylan: 10 live versions of “Visions of Johanna” (Videos & audios)
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• Olof Bjorner’s great website: Still On The Road

-Egil