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One of my favourite TV performances from the group here In performance on German TV with a ‘cold ending’ “The Day Before You Came” was the last song the group ever recorded together in the studio. Released as a single in Oct. ’82 It was recorded and mixed on August 20, 1982, with the working title of “Den Lidande Fågeln” (The Suffering Bird). Apart from Fältskog’s lead vocal and an operatic solo vocal line of Lyngstad mixed with the instrumental, the only instruments featured on the song were Andersson’s synthesizer and drum machine, Ulvaeus’ acoustic guitar and a snare drum by Åke Sundqvist. The song minutely details the story of a lonely woman’s mundane life right before she met her loved one, blended with a sombre, haunting melody. (Wiki) I must have left my house at eight, because I always do My train, I’m certain, left the station just when it was due I must have read the morning paper going into town And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so The usual place, the usual bunch And still on top of this I’m pretty sure it must have rained The day before you came I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two And at the time I never even noticed I was blue I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me …
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