Terminal Eyes

Album: Past, Present And Future (1973)
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  • Cut glass porcupine sailing on the Serpentine
    Fingers on the skyline pulling down the black blinds
    Terminal eyes at the edge of the night
    Rivulet of dark wine moving in a straight line
    Smudging out the stop signs, running down the life lines
    Terminal eyes at the edge of the night
    Shadows on the ceiling, coffee cup congealing
    Tarot cards revealing, a solitary feeling
    Terminal eyes, but I think it's alright
    Silver studded jet plane screaming through the migraine
    Cutting through the cellophane, wrappers of your tired brain
    Terminal eyes, put out the light
    Terminal eyes
    Only the lonely Arabian skies
    Terminal eyes
    Calling you home from your restless disguise
    Hands of the windmill moving to a standstill
    Rain on the windowsill, ashes on the phone bill
    Terminal eyes at the edge of the night
    Rain drop fire flies sparkle on the shop blinds
    Echoes of the summertime flicker in the street-signs
    Terminal eyes at the edge of the night
    Shadows on the ceiling, coffee cup congealing
    Eyes that look unseeing, hands that look unfeeling
    Terminal eyes, I think it's alright
    Silver-studded sea plane breaking through the migraine
    Cutting through the cellophane, enveloping your tired brain
    Terminal eyes, put out the light
    Terminal eyes
    Only the lonely Arabian skies
    Terminal eyes
    Calling you home from your restless disguise
    Terminal eyes
    Only the lonely Arabian skies
    Terminal eyes
    Calling you home from your restless disguise Writer/s: ALISTAIR IAN STEWART
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Greg from Shelbyville, KyThe liners notes from Al himself:
    Any resemblance between "terminal eyes" and "I am the walrus' is intentional Terminal Eyes is a suicide song, both about an individual, and less obviously, about the movement in popular music in the middle to late sixties. For Egg-men everywhere.
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