ABBA - The Day Before You Came (Video) — Transcript
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- 0:00(upbeat bright music)
- 0:09♪ I must have left my house at eight, because I always do ♪
- 0:17♪ My train, I'm certain, left the station ♪
- 0:19♪ Just when it was due ♪
- 0:25♪ I must have read the morning paper going into town ♪
- 0:32♪ And having gotten through the editorial ♪
- 0:36♪ No doubt, I must have frowned ♪
- 0:41♪ I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine ♪
- 0:50♪ With letters to be read ♪
- 0:53♪ And heaps of papers waiting to be signed ♪
- 0:59♪ I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so ♪
- 1:04♪ The usual place, the usual bunch ♪
- 1:08♪ And still on top of this ♪
- 1:10♪ I'm pretty sure it must have rained ♪
- 1:15♪ The day before you came ♪
- 1:21♪ I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two ♪
- 1:28♪ And at the time I never even noticed I was blue ♪
- 1:36♪ I must have kept on dragging ♪
- 1:38♪ Through the business of the day ♪
- 1:44♪ Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me away ♪
- 1:53♪ At five I must have left ♪
- 1:56♪ There's no exception to the rule ♪
- 2:02♪ A matter of routine ♪
- 2:04♪ I've done it ever since I finished school ♪
- 2:10♪ The train back home again ♪
- 2:13♪ Undoubtedly, I must have read the evening paper then ♪
- 2:19♪ Oh, yes, I'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame ♪
- 2:26♪ The day before you came ♪
- 2:31(dramatic music)
- 3:03♪ Must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so ♪
- 3:11♪ And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go ♪
- 3:19♪ I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV ♪
- 3:26♪ There's not, I think, a single episode ♪
- 3:29♪ Of "Dallas" that I didn't see ♪
- 3:35♪ I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten ♪
- 3:44♪ I need a lot of sleep and so I like to be in bed by then ♪
- 3:52♪ I must have read a while ♪
- 3:56♪ The latest one by Marilyn French ♪
- 3:58♪ Or something in that style ♪
- 4:02♪ It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim ♪
- 4:09♪ The day before you came ♪
- 4:15♪ And turning out the light ♪
- 4:17♪ I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night ♪
- 4:23♪ And rattling on the roof ♪
- 4:25♪ I must have heard the sound of rain ♪
- 4:30♪ The day before you came ♪
- 4:35(dramatic music)
- 5:21(dramatic music continues)
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