Paranoid Eyes

by Pink Floyd

From the album: The Final Cut

Track 7 of 13 on The Final Cut (1983).

Duration: 3:41

The Final Cut cover art

Lyrics for Paranoid Eyes

Button your lip And don't let the shield slip Take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions You can hide, hide, hide Behind paranoid eyes You put on our brave face and slip over the road for a jar Fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar Laughing too loud at the rest of the world With the boys in the crowd You can hide, hide, hide "I'll tell you what mates, I'll give you three blacks And play you for five" Behind petrified eyes "Ta! You was unlucky there son" You believed in their stories of fame, fortune and glory Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high And you hide, hide, hide "Time gentleman!" Behind brown and mild eyes

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  1. The Post War Dream
  2. Your Possible Pasts
  3. One of the Few
  4. When the Tigers Broke Free
  5. The Hero's Return
  6. The Gunner's Dream
  7. Paranoid Eyes
  8. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
  9. The Fletcher Memorial Home
  10. Southampton Dock
  11. The Final Cut
  12. Not Now John
  13. Two Suns in the Sunset