I turn right,
Right before the railroad tracks,
And all I see are dark eyes.
Get yourself together, girl,
They seem to say to me.
You’re bigger than this side of town,
But be sure to flee before the sun goes down-
Hang that right,
Or else you gotta stay all night.

I never travel this road in daylight.
I’ve driven through a hundred summer nights-
When the wind is like velvet upon sweaty skin,
And the air is no cooler than
Than the air in Satan’s smoke-filled lungs-
Can you help but think of here, July, and being far too young?
I only travel this road at night, and
I’ve looked up to many a-blackened sky,
But all I see are dark eyes.

One arm around my shoulders yesterday,
One moment not to be relived again,
No matter how hard I try.
And now I drive through this
Black-silk, thick, and lonely night,
Trying to get you here,
Or there,
Or anywhere
That’s off my mind.
One day, one for the books, my dear,
Was all it took.
Yes, that smile hit me with a hard right,
And now all I do is think of you at night.

A bright color,
An innocent color,
That’s what I long to see in my sight.
Ophelia and I,
Coffee-haired
And told too many lies,
Will always search for blues,
But all we see are dark eyes.

Dark eyes in the rear view,
Dark eyes down the road.
There’s nothing all around me,
Far as my dark eyes can see;
A million years from now,
A million miles away,
These dark eyes will remain.