Story Behind The Song
It's a slightly dream-like song based around slightly nightmarish visions. The figure of chance plays with the lives of ordinary people, randomly selecting success or failure, whilst the every day human continues unaware.
Song Description
Fast paced, tense, alternative rock track, with James Bond thematic overtones. The song has a 'big' soundscape with layered backing vocals and orchestral strings and brass.
| Song Length |
3:31 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Rock - General |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Tense, Troubled |
Subject |
Revolution, Conformity |
| Similar Artists |
The Killers, Pearl Jam |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
It's one in a million,
Won't you throw the dice and play.
The colored winds of chance
Are most ably displayed.
Outside the dispatch rider's eyes
Are fixed to the neon sign.
It says one in a million if you steal between the lines.
You ride (Babylonian skies)
It's one in a million,
So take it in your stride.
'cause underneath the looking glass
There's no place left to hide.
The worthy and the wasters
Are twisted out of time
Now one in a million
Will fall between the crimes.
You ride (Babylonian skies)