A-HA – The Sun Never Shine That Day

The sun never shone that day
From an early dawn the sky was grey
I never should’ve walked away
I know that now, but I’m here to say:

Everybody walks away
Everybody’s led astray
Breaking every plan to stay
It happens all the time
The sun never shone that day
From an early dawn the sky was grey
I never should’ve walked I know
I see that now, but it’s hard to show

Everybody’s got to go
Everybody tells you so
Everybody wants to know
Why it happens all the time

I can’t see the point of turning everything upside down
I can’t see the point of greeting everything with a frown
I can’t see the point of painting everything black or white
I can’t see the point of leaving everyone full of doubt (oh doubt)

The sun never shone that day
From an early dawn the sky was grey
I never should’ve walked away
I see that now, but I’m here to say

Everybody holds their own
Everybody lives alone
Everybody hogs the phone
It happens all the time

Everybody feels the strain
Everybody holds the pain
Everybody stays the same
It happens all the time

I can see the point of turning everything upside down
I can see the point of greeting everything with a frown
I can see the point of painting everything black or white
I can see the point of leaving everyone full of doubt
Everyone full of doubt

The sun never shone that day

A-HA – What There Is

Empty glass
Gets another round
Squeaky chair
Makes another sound
There is a gentle breeze
Playing in your hair
Come take a bow
While you’re still
All there

It’s what it is
It’s what it was
It’s what it will be here
After us

There is no memory
There’s no recall
No recollections
At all

Your dark glasses
Sliding down your nose
Now bring these proceedings
To a close

It’s what there is
It’s what there was
It’s what will be here
After us

Your dark glasses
Sliding down your nose
Now bring these proceedings
To a close

You can make it all worthwhile
You can lend yourself some style
You can give them all the reasons
Al the facts that you have seasoned

You can hear them hoot and holler
As you come across a scholar
You can set your name in lights
You can make two wrongs a right

A-HA – There’s Never A Forever Thing

Dearest…
Close your eyes now
Don’t you cry
It’s all right

Lie back
Leave the lights 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.

A-HA – There’s A Reason For It

Don’t know how it got away from me
Don’t know how I let things go, you see
Don’t know why it took a sudden turn
Didn’t seem to be a big concern
And everything is all too much
Hot and bothered, you’re cool to the touch
And everyone is worlds apart
It must have been this way from the start

When there’s nothing here to save the day
Then we have to say
There’s a reason for it
When there’s nothing left for us to do
You’re left without a clue
There’s a reason for it

Don’t know how it got away from me
Don’t know how I let things go, you see
Don’t know why it took a sudden turn
Didn’t seem to be a big concern
And everyone is all too well
All well-adjusted people
Can’t you tell?
And everything is all too fast
Just add water Nothing’s built to last

When your colleagues can’t recall your name
Time and time again
There’s a reason for it
When your name’s the butt of every joke
Just about to croak T
here’s a reason for it
And everyone is worlds apart
It must have been this way from the start
When there’s nothing here to save the day
Then we have to say
There’s a reason for it
When there’s nothing left for us to do
You’re left without a clue
There’s a reason for it
There’s a reason for it
There’s a reason for it
There’s a reason for it

A-HA – The Living Daylights

Hey driver, where’re we 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 tight now
It’s down, down to the wire
Set your hopes up 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

A-HA – The Company Man

Andy was the company man
Responsible for signing the band
Songs came out of our mouths
And into his hands
Oh yeah

Legal help, yes we had plenty
Bank-accounts are easy to empty
Everybody’s trying to help
Everyone is so friendly
Oh yeah

And we all come down
Don’t make a sound as we hit the ground
Yes we all fall down
Don’t make a sound as we hit the ground

Give us something easy to sing to
Give us something simple to cling to
Something we can all understand
Said the company man
Oh yeah
We sing

And we all fall down
Don’t make a sound as we hit the ground
Yes we all fall down
Don’t make a sound as we hit the ground

Yes we all fall down
Don’t make a sound as we hit the ground
May we all fall down
Don’t make a sound as we hit the ground

A-HA – The Blue Sky

I find it 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 at my accent
And make fun of me
Oh, it doesn’t seem like this
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 make me realize

I’m in this big world without you
Nothing to my name
Oh, I never knew that
Blue sky meant such pain

I’m dying to be different
In the coffee shop
I’ve lived on borrowed strength
Now my supplies are cut
Though i’m older than my looks
And older than my years
I’m too young to take on
My deepest fears

Oh, I used to be confused
But now I just don’t know
Since you left I’ve been watching
Blue skies come and go
Since you left I’ve been watching
Blue skies come and go

A-HA – 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

A-HA – Take On Me

We’re talking away
I don’t know what
I’m to say I’ll say it anyway
Today’s another day to find you
Shying away
I’ll be coming for your love, OK?

Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say
I’m odds and ends
But I’ll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK.
Say after me
It’s no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two

Oh the things that you say
Is it life or
Just a play my worries away
You’re all the things I’ve got to
Remember
You’re shying away
I’ll be coming for you anyway

Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two

A-HA – 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 make it
And I could never see
And I could never break out
And shake it’s grip on me

A-HA – Sunny Mystery

You can run through every forest
You can sail in the seven seas
You can climb the highest mountain
To try and dissolve these memories

In case you never knew it
You can’t undo it

You can jump off the edge of the world
Hide out in some monastery
Lose your mind in meditation
And never put your mind at ease

You think you’re running to it
But you are wading through it
A sunny mystery

Life is the dream that you wake up to
Dreams are the life from which you wake
Everybody makes the extra effort
Never knowing what to do

But you know the answer
Yeah, you know the score
It feels just like before

It’s a sunny mystery
That’s how it’s got to be
Because no one knows for sure
The outcome of this
Sunny mystery

A-HA – Summer Moved On

Summer moved on
And the way it goes
You can’t tag along

Honey moved out
And the way it went
Leaves no doubt

Moments will pass
In the morning light
I found out

Seasons can’t last
And there’s one thing
Left to ask

Stay, don’t just walk away
And leave me another day
A day just like today
With nobody else around

Friendships move on
Until the day
You can’t get along

Handshakes unfold
And the way it goes
No one knows

Moments will pass
In the morning light
I found out

Seasons can’t last
So there’s just one thing
Left to ask

Stay, don’t just walk away
And leave me another day
A day just like today
Stay, don’t just walk away
With nobody else around

Seasons can’t last
And there’s just one thing
Left to ask

Stay, don’t just walk away
And leave me another day
A day just like today
Stay, don’t just walk away
With nobody else around

Summer moved on

A-HA – Start The Simulator

Start the simulator
Controllers, listen up
What’s your status, Guidance?
Let’s take it from the top
Coming up on docking
The beginnings of a tear
Clearing the tower
We take the air

Start the simulator
Give your tanks a stir
The bright ejecta blanket
All is still a blur
Switch to Omni Bravo
B bus under volt
Roll right to zero
Steady as she goes

We’re going to fly so high
Into the rendered sky
We’re going to be all right
Inside the endless night

Start the simulator
I.S.O. valves are gray
EDS to manual
Translation looks okay
Save it for the splash-down
Things you want undone
You’re in command now
Your home away from home

You’re in control now
Now you’re on your own

A-HA – 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 these roads
We shall meet, I know
Stay on…my love
We shall meet, I know
I know

Where joy 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
I know, my love, I know

Feel the cold
Winter’s calling on my home..

A-HA – 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 of
My ever worrying 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

I reached inside myself today
Thinking there’s got to be some way
To keep my troubles distant

Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me

A-HA – The Bandstand

You stand in the doorway
A block up the street
Ringing the doorbell
There’s tapping of feet
High yellow hair
And a worn brown suit…
Enter, and break the news

Now tell me the story
I give it the time
No need to worry
Everything’s fine
I’ll take you away
From the name-calling scene
Sure… you can bring your magazine

Cold and windblown on the old bandstand
You and I walking hand in hand
A neon-glow shining
Down on us
Don’t wait up for us
Don’t wait up for us

Now tell me the story
I’ll give it the time
When you stop looking
Then you will find
I’ll take you away
From this name-calling scene
Just bring your magazine

Cold and windblown on the old bandstand
You and I walking hand in hand
A neon-glow shining
Down on us
Don’t wait up for us
Don’t wait up for us

A-HA – Summers Of Our Youth

There’s nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
It happens all the time
Just let the plot unwind

As we look back and see
Our yesterdays entwine
The beauty and the truth
The summers of our youth

And you can go there anytime
The movies on your mind
And you can see it clearly
Where we overstepped the line

What are you gonna do when lights go out
What are you gonna think it’s all about
What are you gonna do when time is up
What are you gonna do to make it change the way you feel?

Our life’s a precious gift
You’ve felt it once or twice
How everything comes once
But once a million times

But you can find it anywhere
You know I speak the truth
I wish there was a way back to
The summers of our youth

What are you gonna do when time is up
What are you gonna do to make it stop
What are you gonna do when lights go out
What are you gonna think it’s all….. think it’s all about

A-HA – Soft Rains Of April

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

So soft rains of April are over
The soft rains of April are over
Over

A-HA – Slender Frame

Your coat is hanging loosely
On your slender frame
There’s many roads to leave 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 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

A-HA – Shapes That Go Together

When you were wrapped in tangles
I was free
And when you were undecided
I believed
It’s alright, tonight
On a deep blue mountain high
The shapes that go together
You and I

When you were filled with longing
I belonged
When you were weak from trying
I was strong
But it’s alright, tonight
On a deep blue mountain high

The shapes that go together
You and I
The shapes that go together
You and I

Childhood winters
Come to me
Whisper softly
So tenderly

I know, I walked 25 miles to hold you
Just to find you’d moved away

When you were wrapped in tangles
I was free
And when you were almost blinded
I could see
But it’s alright, tonight
On a deep blue mountain high

The shapes that go together
You and I
The shapes that go together
You and I
You and I (The shapes that go together)