ABBA : The Day Before You Came (German TV '82) HQ

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 away
At five I must have left, there's no exception to the rule
A matter of routine, I've done it ever since I finished school
The train back home again
Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then
Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within its usual frame
The day before you came
I must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so
And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go
I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV
There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see
I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten
I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then
I must have read a while
The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style
It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim
The day before you came
And turning out the light I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night
And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain
The day before you came

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[supersonrise]

I always thought how maddening it was to figure out how they wrote great lyrics that has stood the test of time, but OMG this song... This song just grabs hold and makes it so personal that it seems to draw me in, like it or not. I mean, she sang it so perfectly that I had the desperate urge to go out and get Chinese food...

[stefancev]

So cute in her Burgund medieval-inspired outfit. Beautiful operaesque supporting vocals; magnificent Bolero-inspired songwriting. The very end of a sequence of outstanding pop songs, so well crafted they may never be surpassed.

Of course noone can come close to the impact Elvis and Beatles had on the youth and the society of their respective times. But musically I think ABBA will earn even higher esteem. They may be the best band of the 20th Century.

Good work with the audio of this upload.

[25gsnd]

I've been a huge ABBA fan since the mid 1980s but the first time I heard this song was in 1992 and for me it is my favourite track, an absolute masterpiece. I don't think any other artist could sing this the way Agnetha does.

[aBeatlesfan1]

nice :)

[Eljaxxxx]

Я потрясён!!!

[sueciapr]

Agnetha, the STAR ****** of starssssss ♫♫ ♥

[dido8414]

BEST SONGS !!!

[plilly]

loved it!

[11simonize]

Luv ABBA forever

[NaranjoBoy84]

Without to do exactly what the song is saying it reflects exactly how my life has been

[vektorvicius]

a magical performance of the best singers off all time ,thank you AGNETHA