Got me a pair of dreary eyes Pale color blue on pale color white Sometimes they cry, sometimes they dry Pale color blue upon pale color Well, I got me a pair of dreary eyes And they tell no lies I got me some lips, but they taste no sweet I got me some lips, but they taste no sweet They're as dry as the old concrete Beaten up New York street Taste no sweet They taste no sweet If only my baby would come back home to me Oh, if only my baby would come back home to me I would go to sleep with sugar on my tongue I would go to sleep with sweetness in my lungs I would go to sleep wrapped inside her skin And I don't care what they say but it ain't no sin Oh it ain't no sin Oh it ain't no sin So me and Poseidon, we've been hanging 'round the water hole And he says to me, he says, "Regina Regina I got no authority no more No one waits to hear the sound of my flip-flops by the door And all my little fish have gone to war." So I says to him, I says, "Poseidon dear You're better off than me I hear 'Cause I've been taking all the wrong busses everywhere Wrong busses lead me to wrong stops Wrong stops lead me to wrong people Wrong people, they take me nowhere fast." So he says to me, he says, "You going nowhere fast." Just 'cause he didn't want me speaking last And I didn't think that that was real polite And he whips out his cigarettes and asks me for a light And I say, "no," and he said, "oh baby" And I said, "no," and he said, "oh baby" And I said, "no," and he said, "oh baby" And then he just doesn't speak So we just sit there and stare till five, six, oh hell And I try not to wince at his fishy smell 'Cause I didn't think that that was real polite And he whips out his cigarettes and asks me for a light And I say, "no," and he said, "oh baby" And I said, "no," and he says, "oh baby" And I said, "no," and he said, "oh baby" And then he just doesn't speak Got me a pair of dreary eyes Pale color blue on pale color white Sometimes I cry, sometimes they dry Pale color blue, like the dingy sky Pale color blue Upon pale color blue Upon pale color blue Upon pale color white