Alan Parsons Project, The - The Turn Of A Friendly Card Lyrics

Oh my goodness it's music with a purpose harmony and a melody strange truth this is magnificent to all the people who love this l love you !

Forgotten how good they were. Now they have new music out.

e daccapo....problema risolto easy easy

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

let it play

its good man

the old story goes that some will play the high-low card with the devil for eternal life and wealth with their soul in the balance. the story always ends with the house winning with the king of diamond over a 9. this story has been around for years. you will notice the card on the album cover is the king of diamonds, which is also the stage name of a danish metal singer ( king diamond) . a few years ago his band came out with a story song named " 13 inventations" which is a modern retelling of the story.

just a little history to the story, brillently told by the APP.

I remember me as a 16 year old girl sitting in my bedroom with my mom next to me, listening to the turn of a friendly card... i was literally seduced and so passionate about this music and lyrics that i needed someone to share my feelings with... i instantly memorized all the lyrics... i’m in 50’s now and i haven’t forgotten one single thing... Allan Parson captured my heart in no time... this truly is a masterpiece of timeless beauty 🔥

Э П О Х А .......................................................

One of the Best..!!

Great suite by one of the greatest band in the World.

As I am sitting here with my 7 year old son, he is singing the lyrics to "snake eyes" perfectly. I could not be more proud😃

Uno de los mejores discos y unos de los mejores lados b en la historia del rock. Monumental lo que hizo Parsons en este album con sus músicos en especial Ian Barrido. El solo de nothing left to lose uno de los más técnicos y mejores del rock... discazo...

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 an 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 the King's horses 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 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
But a pilgrim must follow in search of a shrine
As he enters inside the cathedral

As life long listener of PF i can say that Alan Parsons certainly have Pink Floyd sound. And this song sounds like mini album of theirs. Maybe is English thing... Never mind i love it :)

Played this the morning of my brother's funeral...on the drive down the Pacific Coast Hwy from Cambria to Los Osos...he was only 44...lung hemmorage...strange twist of Fate...listening now from Ecuador, bless 🙏🌻🌵🍓🍄🏵️🦁

From Brazil i know this song in 2000 with 20 years old and now with 39 i feel the same happyness

Молодость....

Used to listen this song over and over when our grandson was expected to be born. For me this song is the embodiment of what of what i could share with him regarding "lessons of life". He's 3 years old now and a deeply loved little boy and sensitive child!

November 2019, I've had a song stuck in my head for the past eight months or so. no idea how to explain to anyone what the song was because I didn't know the artist, the title of the song or the lyrics. And not being any kind of a good singer, I couldn't get the melody through to anyone. Today, I finally got someone to recognize what it was I was trying to hum. All this time I thought maybe it was Asia or Toto or someone of the like. Turns out it was eye in the sky by the Alan Parsons Project. This realization is what led me here. This is the first time I've ever heard this song. 42 years on this planet, listening to bands like ELP, Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd etc. I cannot for the life of me explain how this has escaped me all this time. I blame the people that brought me up in this world. So glad to be able to listen now though. It's like being so familiar with all that old music and wishing there was some way get excited about it again & here I am... Thank you for uploading this. This is incredible!

The best part of the song starts at the begining all the way to the end.

One of the greatest tunes ever created.  Thank you APP !!

That would be a first...also, not possible. O' well

511 idots

Fantastische Musik 💥💥💥

Beautiful, amazing, fantastic, perfect, great, i have no words to describe this Alan Parson's work.

Remember sitting in a cafe i Oslo, Norway year 1981, drinking a cola and reading a danish fotball.magazine named Tipsbladet and listening to this beautuful song. Almost 40 years ago

thumbs up for 2019

Can we take a moment to appreciate the album cover art too?

I nominate this album as the greatest concept album ever produced, and I do love Pink Floyd, too!

We must do anything about health care. No nonsence for money

time goesbye and goesbye

playing cards

Thx a lot for Upload Mostafa xD

I Was twelve....

Ha I need that card. Just saying 🍁🍂

The song Time isn't on here,that is strange

Not strange. That's on Part one. This is Part two.

Ian Bairnson is such a gifted guitarist.

For much people the very best LP Is "Eye in the sky" but for me, "the turn of a friendly card" it's very beatiful so much

The best of thanks

That; s my life

SUPERNATURAL SONG

las cartas amistosas no vienen en una sola.

I am wondering if the "Wheel in Perpetual Motion" is the 10th Tarot card. Certain for some, fortunes rise or sink. And definitely at the Casino's. An artificial community life there.

Stephen Howe
Roulette table

back in 1983 i got a Commodore 64 and hooked it up to the TV. no windows back then, just lots of books on code. so i use to do several hits off the bong and listen to Alan Parsons Project. Turn of a Friendly Card and Pyramid. Then just plug away at the keys. i still love the bong, Alan Parsons, and i have learned some amazing tricks when it comes to computers, to this day...........

Masterpiece!

Back when music was more than computer simulated sound

A masterpiece...

Anyone who doesn't experience this has no loss, they dont have the hunger to belong in a group of elevated individuals who SO recognize the purity, the amazing gift shared, purity of absolute perfection. It's the best kept secret.

Time wasn't on the list

the best album ever

Unreal song.

Like I said before WOW

Pure emotions

YOU get to a certain age and this the music that played on Radio 2

I don't mind trackers, but, why don't they tell me that my laptop is about to fall off my chair?

Oh yea I am unimpressd by these ads, HELP Me.

I thank the lord i just kick out ms.

I Just Booted MicroSoft.

Hurray!

30 years that I listen Alan Parsons and I'm never be tired. One of the best bands of 70 and 80

💋lovely💋

Ever been played like a card? May your 💕 be lifted with winged flight, and mayyou find true love, and prosper a long and fulfilling life🌟☺️

tarareo en el musical key¨ -

Me lamento que no pueda encontrar un temazo nostálgico que hasta ahora sólo yo lo puedo expresar recordar en Internet, no lo puedo encontrar todavía, he indagado, pero este es uno de los más aproximados sonoros, sólo lo logré escucharla sin poder recuperar todo el material en la radio y grabarlo con cassette pero ya por ruinas, extraviado, terminando muy pocas veces cuando en radio de entonces lo reproducían, no sé el nombre sólo recuerdo la melodía y no voy a pasar vergüenza en expresarla.

one of the greatest albums ever

the best forever.

You forgot to put this three songs from the album in the video:
- Time
- Games People Play
- The Gold Bug
Especially Time and Games People Play the most memorable songs of the entire album.
Otherwise, thanks for the video with the album!

This is side “b” they’re supposed to to be play one after another. Side “a” had the songs you mentioned.

really have this album on cd and on vinal record album.

And I should be alright

No one can turn on a friendly LaLa.

I love Love.

Bis heute unerreichbar gut! Ein Meisterwerk, das alle Zeiten überdauert!

I just got this album forty years old. I splurged a bill on a player to hear this gold! It's amazing

man this brings back so many memories.

I took my chances and I mostly failed.

From now on I must be who I am. hi

8:58 this is sooooooo great.

Man this is so fucking good.

Wirklich gut gemachter Edel-Pop (wenn man es so überhaupt bezeichnen möchte) Technisch perfekt und wahrscheinlich auch sehr aufwendig in seiner Entstehung. Die ersten Scheiben von A.P.P sind absolut Kult.

Amazing, criminally under-rated concept album and given the spread of gambling almost everywhere these days completely prophetic. The ending is simply stunning, the guitar gives way to a brace of trumpets as the ominous strings get louder swirling mix that sounds like peril is upon one, stunning concept, stunning recording.

Alan is a bloody genius !! I love him...yesterday now and tomorrow

Correct it. Eric Woolfson wrote these songs. Just buy the deluxe edition of this album and you will hear Eric's demos of all these songs.

Alan, Eric and the gang helped me survive some rough days. Nice now that things are better I can listen and say thank you, whether it is the middle of the day or better yet, the middle of the night.

Very awesome band

I wasted or spent several years listening to Projects and specially this song and the album. I advise you all, after this one play "the ace of the swords" and then "Nothing left to lose" believe me,the result will be awesome ! " The gold bug" and "snake eyes" completely ruined the musical combination. someone tell it to Alan Parsons himself !

I have to disagree, "snake eyes" and "nothing left to lose" are an important part of this "story", the initial excitement of gambling, following the inevitable loss and feeling of doom as one is now broke and desperate.

As sound engineer for The Beatles, Alan Parsons is cherished by Brits. Everything this man has ever produced is mysterious, quirky, often ahead of time, and ***FUN***.

È sempre così bella.. Senza fine, quasi eterna

Bársonyra hulló könnycseppek.

The Alan Parsons Project was Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons....Everybody else were fill-ins, who would come and go, and many sessions musicians.

I listened this album in 1984. It is a fabulous music.

I played this on a cassette when I went out to Vegas in 1986. Man, did I get burned at the tables. But I'd do it again in a friggin heartbeat! Good times, baby!😎

Grandioso álbum ! Solo comparado con el lado B del Abbey road de los Beatles.

"There are unsmiling faces and bright plastic chains, and a wheel in perpetual motion..."

Describes gambling at a casino to a tee, no one is there to socialize it's about the action and the wheel has to be the roulette table of course.

Magic song faltan tenas haber si subes lo que falta

This is music! No more words needed!

Also, this one reminds me of Kaiji, a gambling anime, quite good, 100% recommended, you should watch it!!

The worst part...…….all my lost loves. All my past dreams...……..All my broken promises, one's made and ones given.

The best way to start my day before prison-like high school in 1982. This album, my Sanyo turntable, my Kenwood amp and some really big speakers.

Este tema de Alan Parsons no lo escuchaba desde el año 89.

such a touching song makes me cry .love from wales united kingdom

Lyrics (when aviable, extracted from Genius.com) --->

0:00 The Turn Of A Friendly Card Part 1

[Part 1]
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 an outward emotion
And they think it will make their lives easier
For God knows up till now it's been hard

[Chorus]
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

[Part 2]
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 the king's horses 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 up till now it's been hard

[Chorus]

[Part 3]
But a pilgrim must follow in search of a shrine
As he enters inside the cathedral

2:44 Snake Eyes

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
Snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down now
Gimme snake eyes
Seven eleven
Don't let me down tonight
No don't let me down tonight

[Chorus]
Just one minute more
Gimme just one minute more
It's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright
But you gotta
Gimme one minute more
Gimme one minute more
It's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright

[Verse 1]

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
Just one minute more
Then I'll walk right through that door
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

8:57 Nothing left to lose

[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
You gave the best you had to give
You only have one life to live
You fought so hard you were a slave
After all you gave there was nothing left to save

[Chorus]
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)

[Verse 3]
You read the book you turn the page
You change your life in a thousand ways
The dawn of reason lights your eyes
With the key you realise
To the kingdom of the wise

[Accordion Solo]

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]
Nothing ventured nothing gained
No more lingering doubt remained
Nothing sacred or profane
Everything to gain
Cause you've nothing left

[Snake Eyes Reprise]

13:05 The Turn Of A Friendly Card Part 2
[Verse]
There are unsmiling faces in fetters and chains
On a wheel in perpetual motion
Who belong to all races and answer all names
With no show of an outward emotion

[Pre-Chorus]
And they think it will make their lives easier
But the doorway before them is barred

[Chorus]
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

[Guitar Solo]

[Brass Solo]

Pure genius <3

DESCUBRI A ALAN PARSONS COMPRANDO PIRAMIDE HACE 40 AÑOS MAS O MENOS.........JAMAS DEJE DE ESCUCHAR SU OBRA....
UN MUSICO GENIO PARA LA HISTORIA DE LA MUSICA....

Alan Parson es el productor, pero el genio creativo de todo esto fue Eric Woolfson que en paz descanse, nunca fue reconocido por ello.

Fantastica!!!

Es hermoso... Toda mi niñez adolescencia lo escuché...