Snake Eyes (The Alan Parsons Project song)

"Snake Eyes" is a song by British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project from the 1980 album The Turn of a Friendly Card, where it appears as the second part of the title suite. It 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. "Snake Eyes" was released as a single in 1981 and reached No. 67 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Eric Woolfson discussed the lyrics for "Snake Eyes" in an interview included on The Complete Audio Guide to the Alan Parsons Project, saying that, "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." Portions of "Snake Eyes" feature various sound effects from casinos in Monaco, including the song's intro.