Bright Eyes

By Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel (released in 1979). Latin parody by Dylan Schrader.

Is it a kind of dream
Floating out on the tide
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?
Num somnio ipse?
Fluminis aestibus
Styge secunda adhuc fluitans
An sim somnians?
There’s a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?
Supra finientem caligo
Caelumque candescit
Ignotum videtur quo eatur
Quid significans?
An sim somnians?
Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Luces!
Ignis instar
Luces!
Oculi clauduntur
qui nunc ardere, nunc et pallere
aegre creduntur.
Luces!
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream?
Umbra an sit invisa
Super colles pervagans
Noctem et ipsa transverberans
An sim somnians?
There’s a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start
Oh, into the dark
In arboribus en ventus
Frigide auditur
Cunctis nescientibus singulis
Loca et horas
Inter tenebras
Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Luces!
Ignis instar
Luces!
Oculi clauduntur,
qui nunc ardere, nunc et pallere
aegre creduntur.
Luces!
Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes
Luces!
Ignis instar
Luces!
Oculi clauduntur
qui nunc ardere, nunc et pallere
aegre creduntur.
Luces!