Abba - The Day Before You Came

http://jrossvideo.com "The Day Before You Came" was recorded and mixed on August 20, 1982, with the working title of "Den Lidande Fågeln" (The Suffering Bird). Apart from Fältskog's stunning lead vocal and an operatic 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 and cleverly details the story of a woman's mundane life right before she met her lover. The line that clarifies the story is, 'It's funny but I had no sense of living without aim, the day before you came'. That is, she recalls life as routine before she met him, but now is living a much more interesting life.

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