![]() I think this could be argued to be a first-class example of svabhāvokti, the achievement of a poetic effect by simply and ably describing things as they are. :-) ( a la Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable.) You’ve got to admire the sheer cheek of this, if nothing else. The entire lyrics of the song are merely a catalogue of an average day’s events. It is putatively a love song, but it makes no explicit declaration of love. I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another nightĪnd rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain It’s funny, but I had no sense of living without aim The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten There’s not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn’t see I’m sure I had my dinner watching something on TV Must have opened my front door at eight o’clock or soĪnd stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go Oh yes, I’m sure my life was well within its usual frame Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then ![]() Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me awayĪt five I must have left, there’s no exception to the ruleĪ matter of routine, I’ve done it ever since I finished school I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past twoĪnd at the time I never even noticed I was blue I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or soĪnd still on top of this I’m pretty sure it must have rained With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine I must have read the morning paper going into townĪnd having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned My train, I’m certain, left the station just when it was due Must have left my house at eight, because I always do For example, while its lyrics are very much based in Greek mythology, Cassandra is another uncharacteristically bleak example from the same unfinished project.The music and the video are non-ABBAish too (gone are the exuberance and the outlandish clothes, the video is almost entirely Agnetha with the others getting only a few seconds of screen time and no action), but confining ourselves to the lyrics: ![]() Taking this idea further, you could even argue that it was symbolic of the group coming to an end, though I'm again not convinced - the track was just one of several being worked on for a planned follow-up to The Visitors rather than an intentional standalone closing statement, though I have to agree that their work took a sudden turn to the dark and theatrical around the time both couples separated (which may have been due to Benny and Björn already planning Chess, where they'd recycle various later era ABBA outtakes, including Just Like That). Another theory regarding this song is that it's an account of a woman's final hours before she meets and is subsequently killed by someone, with Frida's wordless vocals representing her spirit leaving. I'm not sure The Day Before You Came could possibly be about Agnetha's stalker, since I recall it once being mentioned in a documentary that he didn't enter the picture until the mid-1990s.
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