[Verse 1]
Well, hello there, sweet to see you
Like your colour, how you doin'?
I've been battered and bewildered
In the beauty of your ruins
Flash, flash and I am blinded
By the fact that you've been born
Feels like fiction
Life goes on
Brown eyes are gone

[Verse 2]
Silence is a virtue
I was taught so I agreed
Conversation half forgotten
Is the hole I hold in me
And all our language and expression
Is decimated by decree
The sound of song
Dies in the dawn
Brown eyes are gone

[Bridge]
Descended slowly on the steps of the cathedral
Where I kissed you
Remembered candles lit with meaning I imposed
But that escaped you
With your brown eyes and your blue jeans
I heard the chiming of the clocks
Kick out the shifting, shuffling rhythm of your docs
[Verse 3]
Hit the road with my compadre
Saw the city incomplete
We were tossed and torn and tumbled
In your famous foreign streets
I felt so fearless and forgotten
No one numbered nothing neat
The sun has shone
We still belong
Brown eyes are gone

[Verse 4]
So farewell then, señorita
Pianos played and set the tone
I was singin' like a servant
To the tune of telephones
I wish you freedom and forgiveness
And a time that is your own
Blue is the colour
Mine's the moment
Brown eyes are gone
Blue is the colour
Mine's the moment
Brown eyes are gone