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Casino - Clive Nolan & Geoff Mann - Beyond That Door (parts ii and iii)

from All You Can​.​.​. Eat? by Twelfth Night - Friends and Family

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Taken from Casino, released January 8, 1992
These are the closing sections from the closing track on the album.
Casino is a classic concept album, and quite simply we love it!

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ii. Beyond that Door

Lucky Jim staggered through the corridor
His heart torn apart with grief
By the window lay the bouncers' victim
The body of the 'Thief'
His head smashed through the window pane
As they'd thrown him out of play
There was blood on the glass
But the glass was smashed
And there shone the light of day

Lucky Jim bowed his head and wept
For the light and the pain were despair
Then he opened his eyes to the grass and the skies
But the Thief was no longer there

About to step out through the broken frame
The gambler heard the Thief call his name:

'The Casino is falling, its days at an end
For I came when you called me,
And now I call you
Friend -

You will come this way one day
I'll be here when you do
I have opened the doorway
But not just for you...

Now I send you to find
Those lost in their gambling
The deafened and the blind
If you fall by the tables
If you're cut by the cards
If they say you've been stealing
If you're shot by the guards
If you're flattened by tumblers
If you're crushed by the wheels

I'm before you
I'm with you
And remember
I know

I know how it feels
I know how it feels...'

iii. Overheard in Passing #3 (bouncers on the door)

'The punters 'ave got restless, it seems one of 'em escaped!
There's got to be a clampdown, unless the crud gets aped...'

'It seems to me that one who's free is the beginning of a trend -
It's too late now to disallow, the punters 'ave a friend...

'Oo knows - 'tween you 'an me,
I might even 'ave a go myself...'

credits

from All You Can​.​.​. Eat?, released December 3, 2020
Vocals: Geoff Mann
Keyboards: Mike Stobbie, Clive Nolan
Guitars: Sylvain Gouvernaire, Karl Groom
Bass: Jon Jeary
Drums & Percussion: Brian Devoil, Paul Flynn
Bouncers: Cliff Orsi, Patric Toms

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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