@ALBUM: east.of.sun.west.of.moon @SONG: Crying in the Rain I'll never let you see The way my broken heart is hurting me I've got my pride and I know how to hide All the sorrow and pain I'll do my crying in the rain If I wait for cloudy skies You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes You'll never know that I still love you So though the heartaches remain I'll do my crying in the rain Raindrops falling from heaven Will never wash away my misery But since we're not together I'll wait for stormy weather To hide these tears I hope you'll never see Someday when my crying's done I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun I may be a fool But till then, darling, you'll never see me complain I'll do my crying in the rain I'll do my crying in the rain I'll do my crying in the rain I'll do my crying in the rain @SONG: Early Morning Early morning Eight o'clock precise I see the lonely August sun arise Say you know You will Move me like you do Out on the fields... I'm waiting the whole night through Early morning, early morning, yeah Ran the whole way Down to the tracks Through the doorway, then a last look back Say you know You will Save me like you do Out on the fields... I've waited the whole night through Early morning, early morning, yeah I climbed all the stairways To find the rooftop clear Got the shotgun lying with me here Say you know You will Move me like you do Out on the fields... You know how it feels, yeah Early morning, early morning, yeah Early morning Eight o'clock precise @SONG: I Call Your Name We got married on a cold mid-winter's morning We said our lines Then kissed And it was over Those pronouncements had such weight I guess they made us hesitate Hesitate When she moved her hips And swayed in my direction I thought we could make it yet And beat the isolation But in that gentle dark Man, we tore ourselves apart Through fire and rain Through wilderness and pain Through the losses, through the gains On love's roller coaster train I call your name Oh God...we used to laugh Is the fire dying, babe It hurts to ask Let me hold you for awhile. @SONG: Slender Frame Your coat is hanging loosely On your slender frame There's many roads to lave by But few come back again I don't believe it I believe it Take a look around and see What's stopping you is stopping me One moonless night and we'll make it right And vanish in the dark of night Pack up your things and go Run down the road, don't take it slow Pack up your things today and run away Yeah, run away You say it's useless crying Never got you far You claim there's none as lonely Lonely as you are I don't believe it I believe it Take a look around and see What's breaking you is breaking me One moonless night we'll make it right And vanish in the dark of night @SONG: East of the Sun Half of a letter Tells half a story The way I see it It's half the worry Where I came from I forgot too soon... East of the sun And west of the moon Money talks And hey, I'm listening I've lived without it Enough to miss it Where I'm going I'll get there soon East of the sun And west of the moon Another day leaves me aching I try to wake up But something's breaking Here inside me Deep and hollow A sound that no other sound could follow I know the pain Before the wound East of the sun And west of the moon @SONG: Sycamore Leaves Can't stop thinking 'bout it It fills me with unease Out there by the roadside something's buried Under sycamore leaves Wet grounds, late September The foliage of the trees I came upon this feeling that someone's lying Covered by sycamore leaves And I could never face it And take a look and see And I could never break out And shake it's grip on me @SONG: Waiting for Her Waiting for her That's all I ever do Waiting for her So why didn't I Take the measures justified Our love has always been the same She comes, then goes away again Oh yeah She used to say We didn't have the breaks we should've had Coming our way But why didn't I take that time and put it right Our love has always been the same She leaves me standing out in the rain Oh yeah Send her my love She's all I'm thinking of Oh yeah I'm telling you And when she's sleeping by my side Eyes closed, all knowledge trapped inside Oh yeah Why didn't I Take the measures justified Send her my love She's all I'm thinking of Oh yeah I'm telling you @SONG: Cold River I took a ride in an automobile Pushed my hands out against the wheel Asked a girl if she needed a ride She said, "Sure, babe, but I wanna drive" Hey now, wait awhile We're going down with a smile Cold river -- she took me down Cold river -- she took my pride Had to stop on account of the storm Seemed like years since I'd been warm We drove all night till the tires blew Got in the back and did what you do Hey now, wait awhile We're going down with a smile Cold river -- she took me down Cold river -- she took my pride On a sunny day On a sunny day (She took my pride) All the money you made Did you need it, babe @SONG: The Way We Talk Sometimes the way we talk isn't all that good We can't change though we know we should Baby, these fights we have aren't always fair Was this problem always there If I could, I'd change, I swear I I could, I would, I swear @SONG: Rolling Thunder It's the weight below us And our fate before us Like a rolling thunder Rolling up from under Don't ever leave this way I know it's getting harder, but hey If your world should crumble, yeah And the rain gets in Running through your skin Soaking you outside in The rain ... see it falling But I don't know how long it will be Until the storm's over But I'll wait I will Like the years of silence To the growing violence Like a rolling thunder Rolling up from under Don't ever leave me this way Wait a little longer, yeah, stay Through all the night I tumble, yeah When the rain comes in I will shed my skin Losing it from within See the rain ... it's falling But I won't be leaving your side Until all is over I'll wait I will So many lifetimes you've been waiting for it All through the good times when you tried to ignore it You hesitate It's come too late You hear the sound Of when wheels engage When the rain comes in I will shed my skin Losing it from within @SONG: (Seemingly) Nonstop July Walking by strangers Stranger than me We talk of the future Between you and me Sweet little darling Where will we be Sweet little darling Where will we be It's hard to conceive it All comes to an end A joke when it's funny, well... I laugh and pretend We're fools to believe it We're fools to try @Album: Memorial Beach By a-ha @SONG: Dark Is The Night For All (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: Move to Memphis (Pal Waaktaar/Magne Furuholmen) @SONG: Cold As Stone (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: Angel In The Snow (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: Locust (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: Lie Down In Darkness (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: How Sweet It Was (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: Lamb To The Slaughter (Mange Furuholmen) @SONG: Between Your Mama And Yourself (Pal Waaktaar) @SONG: Memorial Beach (Pal Waaktaar) @ALBUM: scoundrel.days A-HA -SCOUNDREL DAYS- (C) 1986 A-HA IS: Mags Pal Waaktaar ? @SONG: SCOUNDREL DAYS (Mags/Pal Waaktaar) Was that somebody screaming It wasn't me for sure I lift my head up from uneasy pillows Put my feet on the floor Cut my wrist on a bad thought And head for the door Outside on the pavement The dark makes no noise I can feel the sweat on my lips Leaking into my mouth I'm heading out for the steep hills They're leaving me no choice And see...as our lives are in the making: We belive through the lies and the hating That love goes free For want of an option I run the wind 'round I dream pictures of houses burning Never knowing nothing else to do With death comes the morning Unannounced and new Was it too much to ask for To pull a little weight They forgive anything but greatness These are scoundrel days And I'm close to calling out their names As pride hits my face Woah! See...as our lives are in the making: We believe through their lies and the hating That love goes free through scoundrel days I reach the edge of town I've got blood in my hair Their hands touch my body From everywhere But I know that I've made it As I run into the air And see...as our lives are in the making: We believe through the lies and the hating That love goes through Through scoundrel days @SONG: THE SWING OF THINGS (Pal Waaktaar) They say the world's an eventful place You give me news I don't want to know You say that I should care That I should speak my mind Oh, but how can I speak of the world Pushing by With a lump in my throat And tears in my eyes Have we come to the point of no turning back Or is it still time to get into The swing of things Let us walk through this windless city I'll go on til the winter gets me "Sleep..."you wrote "sleep, my dear" In a letter somewhere Oh, but how can I sleep with your voice in my head And and ocean between us And room in my bed Have I come to the point where I'm loosing the grip Or is it still time to get into The swing of things When she glows in the dark And I'm weak by the sight Of this breathtaking beauty In which I can hide There is a worldful out there Of people I fear But given time I'll get into The swing of things Yes, when se glows in the dark and I'm struck by the sight I know that I'll need this for the rest of my life What have I done What lies I have told I've played games with the ones that rescued my soul Have I come to the point where I'm losing the grip Or is it still time to get into The swing of things @SONG: I'VE BEEN LOSING YOU (Pal Waaktaar) It wasn't the rain that washed away Rinsed out the colours of your eyes Putting the gun down on the bedside table I must have realized; It wasn't the rain That made no difference And I could have sworn it wasn't me Yet I did it all so coldly ...almost slowly Pain for all to see Oh c'mon please now Talk to me Tell me; things I could find helpful How can I stop now... Is there nothing I can do I have lost my way I've been losing you I can still hear our screams competing You're hissing your s's like a snake Now in the mirror stands Half a man I thought no one could break It wasn't the rain That made no difference ...nervously drumming on:Run away But I want the guilt to get me Thoughts to wreck me Preying on my mind Please now Talke to me Tell me; things I could find helpful For how can I stop now... Is there nothing I can do I have lost my way I've been losing you @SONG: OCTOBER (Pal Waaktaar) Dawn awaits a sleepless, English town Of coloured gray Here I roam the streets without you As summer fades away ...down in the city at nights The cold wind blows Wherever you may be right now It must be getting late You're probably asleep already I am wide awake ...down in the city at nights "Don't be lonely" so you've told me But don't you worry now Loneliness can be ignored And time has shown me how ... down in the city at nights I'm missing you so much Down in the city Down in the city... @SONG: MANHATTAN SKYLINE (Mags/Pal Waaktaar) We sit and watch umbrellas fly I'm trying to keep my newspaper dry I hear myself say, "My boat's leaving now" ...so we shake hands and cry Now I must wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye You know I don't want to cry again I don't want to cry again Don't want to say goodbye I don't want to cry again I don't want to run away Don't want to race this pain I'll never see your face again Oh but how How can you say That I didn't try... You see things in the depths of my eyes That may love's run dry No... We leave to their goodbyes I've come to depend on the look in their eyes My blood's sweet for pain The wind and the rain bring back words of a song And they say: wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye But you know I don't want to fall again Don't want to look this pain Don't want another friend Don't want to try again Don't want to see you hurt Don't let me see you hurt I don't want to cry again I'll never see your face again How can you say That I didn't try You know I did You see things in the depths of my eyes That my love's run dry ...So I read to myself: A chance of a lifetime to see new horizons On the front page A black and white picture Of Manhattan Skyline @SONG: CRY WOLF (Mags/Pal Waaktaar) "Night I left the city, I dreamt of a wolf..." He came from where the winds are cold And truth is seen through keyholes ...strange longins never sleep Now he's come where no hearts beat Cry wolf Time to worry Cry wolf Time to worry You can start, but you cannot stop You give in, but you can't give up You can tell all your desperate jokes To a world that puts Love on hold Cry wolf Time to worry Cry wolf Time to worry now ...the sunken-in eyes And the pain in his cries A shape in the dark... Cry wolf Time to worry Cry wolf Time to worry now @SONG: WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE WHALES (Mags/Pal Waaktaar) One left low left two who left high They seam to hard to find Three came twice took once the time To search... We're looking for a little bewildered girl We're looking for a little bewildered girl We're looking for the whales Restlessness is in our genes Time won't wear it off Born into this world with our eyes wide open Girl We're looking for a little bewildered girl We're looking for a little bewildered girl We're looking for the whales I found angels Beached outside your doors Don't you set those lonely eyes on me We're looking for the whales We're looking for the whales... @SONG: THE WEIGHT OF THE WIND (Pal Waaktaar) Your face looked new against the town You've come to lose some memories Like you I've come to touch new grounds You want to lose The weight of the wind Rests hard on your shoulders Bringing you down The one that you love Will never be find You speak into the falling rain Words you'd lost, but found again You see their snakey arms entwined So clear and cruel In your jealous mind You've got to lose The weight of the wind Hard on your shoulders Getting you down The one that you love Will never be found @SONG: MAYBE MAYBE (Mags) Maybe you were joking When you said tath you were walking out on me Maybe, maybe Maybe I was joking When I said that I was running out on you Maybe, maybe I could be wrong, so wrong I could be wrong, so wrong Yes, I could be wrong I don't know, but it's been said decisions travel far from heart to head Maybe, maybe Maybe it was over When you chuked me out the Rover at full speed Maybe, maybe I could be wrong, so wrong I could be wrong, so wrong Yes, I could be so wrong @SONG: SOFT RAINS OF APRIL (Mags/Pal Waktaar) The soft rains of april are over The soft rains of April are over, over Anybody home now I am on the phone now, please... The soft rains of April are over The ferry across the water to Dover, over Anybody home now I am on the phone, oh I'd like to go back Is it raining back home I'm so alone Just got up today And my thoughts are miles away With you Well, they gave me four years Three more to go Keep writing letters Time's passing so slow The soft rains of April are over The soft rains of April are over Over @ALBUM: stay.on.these.roads a-ha. STAY ON THESE ROADS. (1990-3rd. album). @SONG: STAY ON THESE ROADS The cold has a voice It talks to me Stillborn by choice It airs no need To hold. Old man feels the cold... Oh baby don't 'cause I've been told: Stay on thes roads We shall meet, I know Stay on...my love We shall meet, I know I know Where join should reign These skies restrain 'Shadow your love...' The voice trails off again Old man feels the cold Oh baby don't 'cause I've been told Stay on these roads We shall meet, I know Stay on...my love You feel so weak, be strong Stay on, stay on We shall meet, I know I know @SONG: THE BLOOD THAT MOVES THE BODY It's the way we feel Tonight As if it's all unreal All right My love, won't you come back to Our love, you know I'll react to the blood that moves my body Now covers the ground The blood that moves the body The blood that moves the body There's nowhere to go Tonight Lend some warmth to our cold And lonely lives Red stains on 'Eyes Of A Blue Dog' My pains fade as the interiors fog the blood that moves my body Now colours the ground The blood that moves the body The blood that moves the body Not long ago It hurt us so A tremble through our lives The love and care... The way we were Lost its way at nights It's the way we feel Tonight Lend some warmth to our cold And lonely lives My love, won't you come back to Our love, you know we'll react to the blood that moved our bodies Now covers the ground... Now covers the ground The blood that moves the body The blood that moves the body @SONG: TOUCHY! Donna found us in her slow and dreamy way I can't hear a word the waiter says She's looking older than the colour of her hair She walks into the room too pleased to find me there Me I'm touchy Touchy you Me I'm touchy And you know what to do Me I'm touchy Touchy, touchy you Me I'm touchy and you know what to do Both of us together in a room by ourselves I sneeze to look around, byt there's no escape What can I do, what can I say She's waiting for this moment to explain itself. Me I'm touchy Touchy you Me I'm touchy And you know what to do Me I'm touchy Touchy, touchy you Touching love is the best I can do Hey, this time you've gone too far You know how touchy we are Donna found me in her slow and dreamy way Now she reads me what the paper say The way she laughs and what I do I'm waiting for this moment to explain itself through Me I'm touchy...etc. @SONG: THIS ALONE IS LOVE This alone is love No small thing This alone is love That my love brings And all of us who are travelling by trap-doors Our souls are a myriad of wars And I'm losing everyone It will make my last breath pass out at dawn It will make my body dissolve out in the blue Oh baby, what can we do. @SONG: HURRY HOME Hurry home Freight train running I've been gone Too long, honey Why did I waste away the only good thing left to save me Hurry home Freight train running She's alone Got no money (She's alone...she got no money I'm coming home, I've done my running) I'm coming home No more running Why now should I deny the only true thing left inside me Hurry home No more running I'm doing right For once in my life (He's doing right!) No more running... (Rolling countries... fields unfolding I swear the winds are calling) So I hurry home No more running She's all alone Got no money (She's alone...she got no money coming home, I've done my running) Why should I go and hide the only true thing left inside me Hurry home Freight train running @SONG: THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Hey driver, where we're going I swear my nerves are showing Set your hopes up way too high The living's in the way we die Comes the morning and the headlights fade away Hundred thousand people...I'm the one they blame I've been waiting long for one of us to say Save the darkness, let it never fade away In the living daylights. All right, hold on tighter now It's down, down to the wire Set your hopes way too high The living's in the way we die Comes the morning and the headlights fade in rain Hundred thousand changes...everything's the same I've been waiting long for one of us to say Save the darkness, let it never fade away In the living daylights. Comes the morning and the headlights fade away Hundred thousand people...I'm the one they frame In the living daylights. @SONG: THERE'S NEVER A FOREVER THING Dearest... Dry your eyes now Don't you cry It's all right Lie back Leave the light on It's all right, dear I'll be here through the night With you till the first signs of light Say the word and I'll come tonight It's all right now Don't you cry now Hush... Wipe your tears away There's never a forever thing All through the night I'll try so hard to be there somehow With you till the first signs of light Say the word and I'll come tonight Darling, don't you cry. @SONG: OUT OF BLUE COMES GREEN Father My wings are clipped See the steps that made me trip Now I'm so lonely Mother Time's frozen flame Seem to linger in the rain Holding me only Like a river I'm flowing And there's no way of knowing if I'm coming or going I need something to chain me down But it don't matter My eyes have seen... For better Out of blue comes green Mother I have gone wrong Work my fingers to the bone All I've been doing Father Proud that I am To be born into such hands Your love so renewing And I know I can lose it Part of life you can't choose it As I touched the horizon It just felt like I'd die soon Don't matter My eyes have seen For better Out of blue comes green 'Out of blue comes green' Lauren Savoy. @SONG: YOU ARE THE ONE You are the one who has done me in Guess you knew from the start I call again, but there's no one in Don't know where, with whom you've been But I do love you Anyway you want me too You are the one...now the state I'm in! Catching you was so hard I fought for you, did you let me win!? You don't even care, you don't care where I've been But I do love you Anyway you want me too I've done all I can do All the letters I've sent through Put my life in the palms of your hand Maybe now you can see That it's got to be me But if you leave me I'll understand, yeah If you leave me, I'll understand You are the one who has done me in Guess you knew from the start I call your friends, but there's no one in catching you is so hard You are the one! @SONG: YOU'LL END UP CRYING You'll end up crying With your mother's eyes Pretend you can't see yourself Could have been better Could have been worse You could have been yourself Brought up in mom's arms Nowhere to fall Now you're out climbing Taking it all You'll end up crying with your mother's eyes Suffer that moment's pain Could have done better Could have done worse Lost in your love for more Now you're out climbing And you should know You'll end up crying wherever you may go Brought up in mom's arms Nowhere to fall Now you're out climbing Climbing to fall You'll end up crying with your mother's eyes Something is lost from the start Could have been better Could have been worse You're going to need me there. @ALBUM: hunting.high.and.low @SONG: Hunting High And Low Here I am And within the reach of my hands She's sound asleep and she's sweeter now Than the wildest dream could have seen her And I Watch her slipping away Though' I know I'll be hunting high and low High There's no end to the lengths I'll go to Hunting high and low High There's no end to lengths I'll go To find her again Upon this my dreams are depending Through the dark I sense the pounding of her heart Next to mine She's the sweetest love I could find So I guess I'll be hunting high and low High There's no end to the lengths I'll go to Hunting High and Low High Do you know what it means to love I'm hunting high and low And now she's telling me she's got to go away I'll always be hunting high and low Hungry for you Watching me tearing myself to pieces Hunting high and low High There's no end to the lengths I'll go to Oh, for you I'll be hunting high and low @SONG: Train Of Thought He likes to have the morning paper's Crossword solved Words go up words come down Forwards backwards twisted round He grabs a pile of letters from a small suitcase Disappears into an office It's another working day And his thoughts are full of strangers Corridors of nked lights And his mind once full of reason Now there's more than meets the eye Oh, a stranger's face he carries with him He likes a bit of reading on the subway home A distant radio whistling tunes that nobody knows At home a house awaits him, He unlocks the door Thinking once there was a sea here But there never was a door And his thoughts are full of strangers And his eyes to numb to see And nothing that he knows of And nowhere where he's been Was ever quite like this And his thoughts... And at heart He's full of strangers Doging on his train of thought Train of thought @SONG: The Sun Always Shines On T.V Touch me How can it be Believe me The sun always shines on T.V Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me to me... I Reached inside myself And found nothing there To ease the pressure off My ever worried mind All my powers waste away I fear the crazed and lonely looks The mirror's sending me These Days Please don't ask me to defend The shamefull lowlands Of the way I'm drifting Gloomily through time (Touch me) I reached inside myself today (Give all your love) Thinking there's got to be some way To keep the troubles distant Hold me Close to your heart Touch me And give all your love to me @SONG: Blue Sky I find hard to breathe As life just eats away At the faces that surround me They look tired today The lady at my table Doesn't want me here I just want to talk to her But would she laugh to my accent And make fun of me It doesn't seem like The blue sky's here for me There are no girls in here As far as I can see Only pin-up posters Looking down at me Watching papercups of coffee Growing cold before my eyes All the things I see That makes me realize I'm in this big world without you Nothing tomy name I never knew that Blue sky meant such pain I'm dying to be different In the coffee shop I lived to double strength Now my supplies are cut Oh, I'm older than my looks And older than my years I'm too young to take on My deepest fears I used to be confused But now I just don't know Since you left I've been watching Blue skies come and go