Pyramid

I was thinking about Pyramid yester-day and realized that it (and "Pyramania" in particular) has an appropriate theme for the Alan Parsons Project's third album since pyramids have three edges (when viewed from the side, at least).

"The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)" and "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)"

I listened to The Turn of a Friendly Card yester-day to mark Eric Woolfson's eightieth birthday, and I noticed some significance in the structure of the lyrics in the title tracks (part one and part two), specifically in the lines "But the game never ends when your whole world depends / On the turn of a friendly card."  The sense is spread across the line break, so the listener is left waiting for the line "On the turn of a friendly card" to complement "depends" and finish the meaning.  To some degree, this structure (with the second line necessary to make sense of the first) matches the "depend[ency]" in the lyrics.