A Pair of Brown Eyes

Song A Pair of Brown Eyes
Artist Titus Andronicus
Album The Most Lamentable Tragedy

Lyrics

[00:07.920] One winter's evening stoned as hell
[00:13.800] I sat there nearly lifeless
[00:21.200] While an old man in the corner sang
[00:26.960] "Where the Waterlilies Grow"
[00:34.700] And on the jukebox Johnny sang
[00:40.350] About a thing called love
[00:48.520] And it's how are you kid and what's your name
[00:56.760] And how would you bloody know?
[01:08.320] In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky
[01:09.950] I lay down on the ground
[01:12.800] And the arms and legs of other men
[01:14.810] Were scattered all around
[01:17.300] Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed
[01:20.010] Then prayed and bled some more
[01:22.020] But the only thing that I could see
[01:24.980] Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
[01:27.780] But when we got back, labeled parts one to three
[01:30.240] There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me
[01:32.630] So a roving a roving a roving I'll go
[01:35.350] For a pair of brown eyes
[01:40.710] A pair of brown eyes
[01:45.600] A pair of brown eyes
[01:48.230] I looked at him, he looked at me
[01:50.610] All I could do was hate him
[01:53.170] While Ray and Philomena sang
[01:55.380] Of my elusive dream
[01:58.090] I heard the sounds that followed away
[02:00.600] Where his brown eyes were waiting
[02:03.200] And I thought about a pair of brown eyes
[02:05.770] That waited once for me
[02:11.290] I thought about a pair of brown eyes
[02:17.340] A pair of brown eyes
[02:19.630] So stoned as hell I left the place
[02:22.060] Sometimes crawling sometimes walking
[02:24.990] A hungry sound came across the breeze
[02:27.310] So I gave the walls a talking
[02:30.220] And I heard the sounds of long ago
[02:32.600] From the old canal
[02:34.770] And the birds were whistling in the trees
[02:37.540] Where the wind was gently laughing
[02:40.590] So a roving a roving a roving I'll go
[02:42.850] Roving a roving a roving I'll go
[02:45.220] Roving a roving a roving I'll go
[02:48.210] For a pair of brown eyes
[02:50.730] A pair of brown eyes
[02:55.700] Roving a roving a roving I'll go
[02:58.050] Roving a roving a roving I'll go
[03:00.560] Roving a roving a roving I'll go
[03:03.720] For a pair of brown eyes
[03:05.870] A pair of brown eyes
[03:08.300] A pair of brown eyes
[03:11.180] A pair of brown eyes
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