Pogues - A Pair Of Brown Eyes Lyrics
One summer evening drunk to hellI stood there nearly lifelessAn old man in the corner sangWhere the water lilies growAnd on the jukebox johnny sangAbout a thing called loveAnd its how are you kid and whats your nameAnd how would you bloody know?In blood and death neath a screaming skyI lay down on the groundAnd the arms and legs of other menWere scattered all aroundSome cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursedThen prayed and bled some moreAnd the only thing that I could seeWas a pair of brown eyes that was looking at meBut when we got back, labeled parts one to threeThere was no pair of brown eyes waiting for meAnd a rovin a rovin a rovin Ill goFor a pair of brown eyesI looked at him he looked at meAll I could do was hate himWhile ray and philomena sangOf my elusive dreamI saw the streams, the rolling hillsWhere his brown eyes were waitingAnd I thought about a pair of brown eyesThat waited once for meSo drunk to hell I left the placeSometimes crawling sometimes walkingA hungry sound came across the breezeSo I gave the walls a talkingAnd I heard the sounds of long agoFrom the old canalAnd the birds were whistling in the treesWhere the wind was gently laughingAnd a rovin a rovin a rovin Ill goFor a pair of brown eyes
