Snake Eyes (song)

This article is about the Alan Parsons Project song. For other songs of this name, see Snake eyes (disambiguation).

"Snake Eyes"

Single by The Alan Parsons Project
from the album The Turn of a Friendly Card
Released	November 1980
Recorded	Late 1979 - Mid 1980 Acousti Studio, Paris
Genre	Rock , Progressive Rock
Length	3:12
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
Producer(s)	Alan Parsons

"Snake Eyes" is a song by British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project off their 1980 album The Turn of a Friendly Card, where it appears as the second part of the title suite. It reached No. 67 on the U.S. Billboard Charts in 1981. In Germany it was released as the B-Side of Single "The Gold Bug" which reached No. 40 on the Media Control Charts.

The song was written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, and features Chris Rainbow on lead vocals. The lyrics are from the perspective of a compulsive gambler playing craps, who doesn't intend to stop until he wins.

In an interview, Eric Woolfson said of the song, "I've often, in common with many other writers, been inspired at the oddest moments. And, one of the things that did start the creative juices flowing was actually sitting in casinos in Monte Carlo, with the din going on of people with machines, people talking, people moving about, and all the hustle and bustle that goes on there[...] The joke about the lyric of "Snake Eyes" is that he's betting on something that you can't possibly win, because snake eyes is a bet which loses if seven or eleven comes up, and seven or eleven is a bet which loses if snake eyes comes up. So he's yelling `Snake Eyes! Seven, eleven!', he wants any one of the three, and any of the three is gonna wipe him out."

Personnel

The Alan Parsons Project

Alan Parsons Eric Woolfson Ian Bairnson Andrew Powell David Paton Stuart Elliott Stuart Tosh Laurence Cottle Duncan Mackay Mel Collins Lenny Zakatek Chris Rainbow Geoff Barradale John Miles Colin Blunstone Jack Harris Dave Townsend

Studio albums	Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976) I Robot (1977) Pyramid (1978) Eve (1979) The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980) Eye in the Sky (1982) Ammonia Avenue (1984) Vulture Culture (1984) Stereotomy (1985) Gaudi (1987) The Sicilian Defence (2014)

Compilations	The Best of the Alan Parsons Project (1983) The Best of The Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2 (1988) The Instrumental Works (1988) The Definitive Collection (1997) The Best of the Alan Parsons Project (2002) The Essential Alan Parsons Project (2007)

Singles	"(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" "The Raven" "Games People Play" "Time" "Snake Eyes" "Eye in the Sky" "Old and Wise" "Don't Answer Me"

Related articles	Discography Keats Freudiana Ladyhawke original soundtrack

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