Alan Parsons - Days Are Numbers

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Chris Rainbow - Lead Vocals

Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) written by Alan Parsons / Eric Woolfson
Lyrics
"The traveler is always leaving town
He never has the time to turn around
And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere
He seems to be completely unaware
The traveler is always leaving home
The only kind of life he's ever known
When every moment seems to be
A race against the time
There's always one more mountain left to climb
Days are numbers
Watch the stars
We can only see so far
Someday, you'll know where you are
Remember
Days are numbers
Count the stars
We can only go so far
One day, you'll know where you are
The traveler awaits the morning tide
He doesn't know what's on the other side
But something deep inside of him
Keeps telling him to go
He hasn't found a reason to say no
The traveler is only passing through
He cannot understand your point of view
Abandoning reality, unsure of what he'll find
The traveler in me is close behind
Days are numbers
Watch the stars
We can only see so far
Someday, you'll know where you are
Remember
Days are numbers
Count the stars
We can only go so far
One day, you'll know where you are"

Background on Alan Parsons
"Alan Parsons was born into a family with an impressive history in entertainment. His great-
grandfather was the celebrated actor/manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. His mother was an
actress, professional folk singer and harpist and his father, Denys Parsons, an accomplished
pianist and flautist as well as the author of many books. The late Oliver Reed, film actor was a
cousin. His uncle, David Tree was also a film and stage actor.
Alan had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a
lead guitarist with a blues band called The Earth in the late sixties in his hometown of London.
(Their only album, Elemental surfaced recently and was released by Record Collector Magazine
in 2016.) But as soon as he landed a job at the famous Abbey Road Studios at the age of 19, it
became clear that the world of sound recording was to dominate his career.

Abbey Road:
He was fortunate enough to work as assistant engineer on the last two albums
by The Beatles and after he qualified as a fully-fledged recording engineer, he went on to work
with Paul McCartney and The Hollies among many others. But it was his contribution as
engineer on Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon that really got him world
attention. That soon led to striking successes as a producer – notably with Pilot’s Magic, John
Miles’ Highfly and Music and Steve Harley’s (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile. He also
produced the hugely successful Year Of The Cat album with Al Stewart and two albums with
American prog rock band Ambrosia.
In 1975 he met Eric Woolfson who not only became his manager, but joined forces with Alan
as a songwriting and performing partner for what became known as The Alan Parsons Project.
The APP’s debut album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination based on the works of Edgar Allan
Poe paved the way for a signing to Clive Davis’ newly launched Arista label and a string of hit
albums, namely I Robot (1977), Pyramid (1978), The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980), Eye in the
Sky (1982), Ammonia Avenue (1984), Vulture Culture (1985), Stereotomy (1986)
and Gaudi (1987).
A brief venture into musical theatre resulted in Freudiana in
1990.The show ran for over a year in the historic Theater An Der Wien in Vienna. Eric and Alan
then went separate ways. Eric devoted his career to the musical theatre while Parsons felt the
need to bring his music to the live concert stage and to continue to record ambitious symphonic
rock music.

With his long-standing previous APP collaborators, guitarist Ian Bairnson, drummer Stuart
Elliott and orchestral arranger Andrew Powell, Alan dropped the “Project” identity for Alan
Parsons’ –Try Anything Once – in 1994. The partnership continued for On Air in 1996 and The
Time Machine in 1999. During this time the first incarnation of “Alan Parsons Live Project”
toured to sell out audiences throughout the globe. Following Alan’s relocation to California in
1999 with his American girlfriend, Lisa, and a divorce from Smokey, his first wife, a brand-new
Live Project band was formed in 2003. That same year Lisa and Alan were married. Another
band reshuffle happened in 2010. The current live band consists of Alan on acoustic guitar,
keyboards and vocals, P.J. Olsson on vocals, Tom Brooks on keyboards, Guy Erez on
bass, Jeff Kollman on guitar and vocals, Danny Thompson on Drums, Todd Cooper on sax,
percussion and vocals, Dan Tracey on guitar and vocals, and Tyson Montgomery Leonard on
violin.

The album A Valid Path, Alan’s foray into electronica was released in 2004 and featured Pink
Floyd’s David Gilmour, The Crystal Method, Shpongle, Uberzone, P.J. Olsson and Alan’s
son, Jeremy. 2008 saw the reissue of all the Alan Parsons Project albums in expanded form,
containing never-before- heard bonus material and a 2-CD compilation called The Essential
Collection. One of the most familiar Project tracks is Sirius, perhaps best known as the Chicago
Bulls theme. It was also used as the walk-on music for The New Orleans Saints at their
triumphant Super Bowl game in 2010 and at the 2012 European Cup soccer matches. Sirius
has also been featured at countless other sporting events, commercials and in the movies Cloudy
With A Chance Of Meatballs and Beerfest."
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Excellent video and song.