Turn of a Friendly Card
Alan Parsons Project
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May Be A Price To Pay
Games People Play
Time
I Don't Wanna Go Home
The Turn Of A Friendly Card:
i) The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1)
ii) Snake Eyes
iii) The Ace Of Swords
iv) Nothing Left To Lose
v) The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 2)
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May Be A Price To Pay
(Lead vocal - Elmer Gantry)
Something's wrong in this House today
While the Master was riding the Servants decided to play
Something's wrong in this House today
Something's been going on there may be a price to pay
There's evil brewing, getting out of control
And I'm helpless I can't put it right
Something's unrighteous is possessing my soul
And it's cold in the heat of the night
Something's wrong in this House today
While the Sorcerer slept the Apprentice decided to play
While the Master was hiding the Servants decided to play
Might be too much Sun or too much of something in the Air
Whatever's happening nobody else is aware
There's evil brewing, getting out of control
And I'm helpless I can't put it right
Something's unrighteous is possessing my soul
And it's cold in the heat of the night
Something's wrong in this House today
Something's been going on there may be a price to pay
Games People Play
(Lead vocal - Lenny Zakatek)
Where do we go from here now that all other children are growin' up
And how do we spend our lives if there's noone to lend us a hand
I don't wanna live here no more, I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life, Quietly fading away
Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Honor Brite
If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, Would you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night
Where do we go from here now that all of the children have grown up
And how do we spend our lives knowin' nobody gives us a damn
I don't wanna live here no more, I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life, Quietly fading away
Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Just don't make it right
If I'm telling you the truth right now, Do you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night
Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Honor Brite
If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, Would you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night
Games people play, You take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Just don't make it right
If I'm telling you the truth right now, Do you believe it
Games people play in the middle of the night
Time
(Lead vocal - Eric Woolfson)
Time, flowing like a river
Time, beckoning me
Who knows if we shall ever meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea
Goodbye my love, Maybe for forever
Goodbye my love, The tide waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea
till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore
Goodbye my friends, Maybe for forever
Goodbye my friends, stars wait for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea
till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore
I Don't Wanna Go Home
(Lead vocal - Lenny Zakatek)
Go back home you damn fool
Surely you know you can't win
You should never have come near this place
You should have stayed outside, Lookin' in
It's too late to turn back
Nobody asked you to try
But they blinded you with diamonds
And all the money that money can buy
And I'm so afraid of being on my own
But I don't wanna go home
You can't win you damn fool
You drank all the wine from the cup
And your painted lady's gone now
And you're way back on the downside, Lookin' up
You can't catch the monkey on your back
Nobody asked you to try
But for every heart they held a spade
And you lost more than money can buy
And I'm so afraid of being on my own
But I don't wanna go home
I'm like a washed up rag
Tattered and torn
I wish I'd never been born
And I'm so afraid of being on my own
But I don't wanna go home
I'm like a down and out just blowin' my horn
Oh I don't wanna go home
I'm like a washed up rag
Tattered and torn
Oh I don't wanna go home
The Turn of a Friendly Card
i. The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part 1)
(Lead vocal - Chris Rainbow)
There are unsmiling faces and bright plastic chains
And a wheel in perpetual motion
And they follow the races and pay out the gains
With no show of outward emotion
And they think it will make their lives easier
For God knows up till now it's been hard
But the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
No the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
There's a sign in the desert that lies to the west
Where you can't tell the night from the sunrise
And not all's the king's horse and all the king's men
Have prevented the fall of the unwise
For they think it will make their lives easier
And God knows it's been hard
But the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
No the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
But a pilgrim must follow in search of a shrine
As he enters inside the cathedral...
ii. Snake Eyes
(Lead vocal - Chris Rainbow)
Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down boys
Gimme
Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down tonight
No don't let me down tonight
Just one minute more, Give me just one minute more
It's gonna be alright, It's gonna be alright
Just one minute more, Then I'll walk right through that door
It's gonna be alright, It's gonna be alright
If ya gimme
Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down boys
Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down tonight
No don't let me down tonight
Just one minute more, Then I'll walk right through that door
It's gonna be alright, It's gonna be alright
But'cha gotta
Gimme one more marker more
Then I'll walk right through that door
Gimme one more, don't let me down
It's gonna be alright, alright, alright
iii. The Ace of Swords
(Instrumental)
iv. Nothing Left to Lose
(Lead vocal - Eric Woolfson)
Nothing's good the news is bad
The heat goes on and it drives you mad
Scornful thoughts that fly your way
You should turn away cause there's nothing more to say
You gave the best you had to give
You only had one life to live
You fought so hard you were a slave
After all you gave there was nothing left to save
You've got nothing left to lose (you've got nothing left to lose)
No you've got nothing left to lose (who'd wanna be standing in your shoes)
Nothing ventured nothing gained
No more lingering doubt remained
Nothing sacred or profane
Everything to gain
Cause you've nothing left
v. The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part 2)
(Lead vocal - Chris Rainbow)
There are unsmiling faces in fetters and chains
On a wheel of perpetual motion
Who belong to all races and answer all names
With no show of outward emotion
And they think it will make their lives easier
But the doorway before them is barred
And the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
No the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
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