Released: September 1, 1978
Songwriter: Dennis DeYoung
Producer: James Young John Panozzo Tommy Shaw Chuck Panozzo Dennis DeYoung
It's six O'clock, good morning sounds are everywhere
The warmth of spring, a gentle breeze blows through my hair
I hurry through my life never stopping to see
How beautiful it was meant to be
I'm just a prisoner in a king's disguise
Broken dreams as we shuffle by
It's six O'clock, it's quitting time I'm done for the day
Out on the streets, I overheard a lady say
We now have everything, or so people say
But now this emptiness haunts me every day
We seek the lion's share never knowing why
Come alive spread your wings and fly
Pieces of eight, the search for the money tree
Don't cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight can't buy you everything
Don't let it turn your heart to stone
Pieces of eight, the search for the money tree
Don't cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight, treasures filled with emptiness
Don't let it turn your heart to stone
Pieces of eight, the search for the money tree
Don't cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight, treasures filled with emptiness
Don't let it turn your heart to stone
The warmth of spring, a gentle breeze blows through my hair
I hurry through my life never stopping to see
How beautiful it was meant to be
I'm just a prisoner in a king's disguise
Broken dreams as we shuffle by
It's six O'clock, it's quitting time I'm done for the day
Out on the streets, I overheard a lady say
We now have everything, or so people say
But now this emptiness haunts me every day
We seek the lion's share never knowing why
Come alive spread your wings and fly
Pieces of eight, the search for the money tree
Don't cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight can't buy you everything
Don't let it turn your heart to stone
Pieces of eight, the search for the money tree
Don't cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight, treasures filled with emptiness
Don't let it turn your heart to stone
Pieces of eight, the search for the money tree
Don't cash your freedoms in for gold
Pieces of eight, treasures filled with emptiness
Don't let it turn your heart to stone
more tracks from the album
Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology
- Renegade
- Winner Take All
- Babe
- The Best of Times
- One with Everything
- Light Up
- Crystal Ball
- Miss America
- Sing for the Day
- Mademoiselle
- Show Me the Way
- Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
- Best Thing
- Prelude 12
- Boat on the River
- You Need Love
- A.D. 1928
- Borrowed Time
- Rock & Roll Feeling
- Lady
- Come Sail Away
- Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
- The Grand Illusion
- Too Much Time on My Hands
- Lorelei
- Mr. Roboto
- Suite Madame Blue
- Dear John
- Love Is the Ritual
- Snowblind
- Rockin’ the Paradise
- Shooz
- Pieces of Eight
- Lights
- Man in the Wilderness (Extended Version)
From the albums
- Pieces of Eight (1978)
- Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology (2004)
Styx popular songs
- Renegade
- Mr. Roboto
- Babe
- Too Much Time on My Hands
- Boat on the River
- Come Sail Away
- Lady
- The Best of Times
- Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
- Show Me the Way
- The Grand Illusion
- Don’t Let It End
- Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
- Crystal Ball
- Rockin’ the Paradise [Caught in the Act]
- Snowblind
- Miss America
- Pieces of Eight
- Suite Madame Blue
- Sing for the Day
- Man in the Wilderness
- Lorelei
- Hallelujah Chorus
- What Has Come Between Us