Dark Moor - Green Eyes lyrics

[Based on the story of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Spanish poet 1836-1870)] And old legend tells A spirit of the devil dwells In a lake beyond the trees And I found my ruin in this place Green eyes Like a beam of the sun That, swift, hides while it runs Within the white foam Green eyes Your glance burned my chest The desire of the quest Of some eyes like those Loneliness did filled my soul And my mind they stole I became drunk with its melancholy When I saw her eyes in water Green eyes Like a beam of the sun That, swift, hides while it runs Within the white foam Green eyes Your glance burned my chest The desire of the quest Of some eyes like those My course was her call To her bed of emeralds Waters jumped in glints of light And then closed over my body Green eyes Like a beam of the sun That, swift, hides while it runs Within the white foam Green eyes Your glance burned my chest The desire of the quest Of some eyes like those