A-HA LYRICS
album: "Cast In Steel" (2015)
Cast In Steel
Meet me at the turnaround
Stop your car and look around
There I will be waiting
Forget for once how everything
Fades
It fades away
I’ll never get over what we said
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true
To be right
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel
We made a pact
Eye to eye
Cross your heart
And hope to die
Can you see the end of things?
Can you see it happening?
Feel the ashes on the wind
Don’t you hate how everything
Falls
Just falls away
I’ll never get over what we said
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true
To be right
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel
We made a pact
Eye to eye
Cross your heart
And hope to die
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true
Set in stone
And cast in steel
To be right and
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel
****************************************
Under The Makeup
This is how it ends
Each on our own
Unless we pretend
Meanwhile our hearts turn to stone
Shaped by wind
Boulders slowly molded over time
Here within
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup
Let all the worry
Vanish away
I want to hold you
Like it’s the first time
Like you were still mine
If you wanted out
Didn’t I let you go
If you wanted in
Didn’t I make it so
It could be
Tenderness escapes so easily
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup
Let all the worry
Vanish away
I want to hold you
Like it’s the first time
Like you were still mine
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup
Let all the worry
Vanish away
I want to touch you
Like it’s the first time
Like you were still mine
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup...
****************************************
The Wake
Can't change the one you are
Can't change the one you love
Lower your guard
I've made a few mistakes
I'll tell you what it takes
Under the stars
Have you seen the other me at times?
Walking on an ever looser line
Baby this is a wake
You and I will not escape
As time goes by
The world's never been older
Your head on my shoulder
So close your eyes
Stung by normality
Wronged by your family
Conventions aside
Cannot change the one you love
From inside – or from above
Just hold him tight
Walking on an ever looser line
But love has let me over every time
Baby we're on a wake
You and I will not escape
Just close your eyes
The world's never been older
Your head on my shoulder
As time goes by
Baby this is a wake
None of us will escape
Who we are
The world's never been older
Your head on my shoulder
As time goes by
****************************************
Objects In The Mirror
You drive down your old street
Familiar smiles from those you meet
You’ve been around been everywhere
But objects in the rear view mirror
Are closer than they appear
Looking back is bittersweet
When the world was at your feet
Love would make your life complete
No one makes it on their own
You’ve come so far
In your comfortable car
Now objects in the rear view mirror
Seem closer than they are
Looking back is bittersweet
All the world was at your feet
Love could make your life complete
Yeah, love could make your life complete
Teach your heart to skip a beat
Lift your eyes above the street
This is where you once belonged
Come on now, its not so bad
Thinking back on the fund we had
We can stitch a life together
With the fibres of the past
But you cannot make a fleeting moment
Promise it will last
Looking back is bittersweet
Love the world was at your feet
Lift your eyes above the street
This is where you once belonged
Been everywhere
And now you’re here
And objects in the rear view mirror
Seem to disappear
****************************************
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
I hit my head on the pillow, hard
I heard a noise from the boulevard
And it made me go down
I left the door to my room ajar
Felt the rumble of the street-car
And it spiralled me down
If you could see me
Swallowed by darkness
What would it matter
Would it awaken
Feelings forsaken
Faded and scattered
Would you come running
If you could hear me
Some way or another
That’s what I’m thinking
Watching the stars reflect in the gutter
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
I hit my heard on the pillow, hard
I took the words that you said to heart
And it made me feel down
When I awoke it was dark outside
Just a flicker from a traffic light
And it signalled me down
If you could see me
Swallowed in darkness
What would it matter
Would it awaken
Feelings forsaken
Faded and scattered
Would you come running
If you could hear me
Some way or another
That’s what I’m thinking
Watching the stars reflect in the gutter
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
****************************************
Living At The End Of The World
Sometimes it leaves me with fear
Never saw the horizon this near
Look to the left then to the right
I tuck you in and kiss you goodnight
See there is something I know
We are not whom we’re told
We are more than we’ll never know
And we’re living at the end of the world
Forget about all that you’ve heard
Living our dreams on the highway
It’s just another day
No matter what they say or you’ve heard
We’re living on top of the world
We’re living our dreams on the highway
No matter what they say
It’s just another day
I hear your heart beat in the night
You are like an echo of light
But in times when shallow runs deep
Your golden beauty goes cheap
Still there is something I know
Something yet to unfold
And we are more than we’ll never know
And we’re living at the end of the world
Forget about all that you’ve heard
Living our dreams on the highway
It’s just another day
No matter what they say or you’ve heard
We’ve made it to the top of the world
Building up speed on the highway
We’ve made it to the end
Living at the end of the world
Forget about all that you’ve heard
No matter what they say or you’ve heard
We’ve made it to the top of the world
Building up speed on the highway
We’ve made it to the end of the world
****************************************
Mythomania
You walked a mile on broken glass
Through glowing coals you were a path
The words on your tongue a mechanical song
Your face is lined with disappointment
Oh white matter mind, what have you got to say?
Reasons combine to force you away
You’re moving on
You solved the problem
And who can’t blame you
You’re safe in here
Inside your castle
In mythomania, mythomania
Cold crescent moon on a red cross
Its happening soon ti’s coming for us
Oh white matter mind, what is there left to say?
Reasons combined to force you away
No telephone
No television
No news that drain you
You’re safer here
More atmosphere
In mythomania, in mythomania, mythomania
You caught belief
Like some disease
No words can save you
Cuz you’re all along
You’re on your own
In mythomania
****************************************
She's Humming A Tune
She’s humming a tune
To keep herself from thinking
About all that she’s facing
But her mind is racing
Over and over again
And I don’t suppose she knows
Everything that’s bound to happen
How and where the story goes
And I don’t why I care
She’s up tight, not right
How could it matter to me
She’s humming a tune
To keep herself from straying
When everything’s swaying
And decisions are weighing
Ever so hard on her mind
And I don’t suppose she knows
Everything that’s bound to happen
How and where the story goes
And I don’t know if it just
I’m bummed out, no doubt
What does it matter to me
She’s up tight, not right
How could it matter to me
And I don’t suppose she knows
She’s up tight, not right
How could it matter to me
****************************************
Shadow Endeavors
Why breathe a word
When no one needs to know
Why say a thing
To another living soul
Let us pay no mind
To a world that seems unkind
For here is something to shelter
Now more than ever
Shadow endeavours
Our shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Why leave us open
And naked to the sun
Why draw their fire
That they’ll surely reign upon us
Let us pay no mind
To their words and bitter lines
For here’s something to shelter
And now more than ever
Shadow endeavours
These shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
More than ever
Shadow endeavours
Only ever happened to me once
It doesn’t come again
I think somebody left me here
Afraid and lonely
A long time ago
Only ever happened to me once
It doesn’t come again
I think somebody left me here
Afraid and lonely
A long time ago
****************************************
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson goodbye
I tape the sign to the door
Here we pinned all our dreams
Now the store is no more
What comes after what was
That was once strangely new
What awaits up ahead
For me and you?
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
This space is for rent
See me head hanging low
All my energies spent
What comes after what was
That was once strangely new
What awaits up ahead
I wish I knew
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
What comes after what was
That was once strangely new
What awaits up ahead
For me and you
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
****************************************
The End Of The Affair
Even as the snow is falling
Dark December nights are calling
Memories of early warning signs
Like a whisper in the mind
I put my brave face on
Robbed of the love I owned
It’s the end of the affair
We are not who we once were
Hard to be open when all facts are in
Hard to write endings before we begin
It’s the end of the affair
And it seems we no longer care
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Well I was fond but now I’m harder
So here we are in somber silence
With no one else but us to blame
Hard to be honest when others pretend
Hard to begin when we already know the end
It’s the end of the affair
And it seems we no longer care
****************************************
Mother Nature Goes To Heaven
Wrong
You never got it wrong
You always got it right
But now some time has passed;
You’re ever so slightly off
Thing you could do asleep
In a not too distant past,
Are trying your patience
Harder now
And though
Everything moves along
You hope the rumour’s wrong
That Mother Nature
Goes to heaven
Right
You never got it wrong
It always got away
When you had it nailed
It was ever so slightly off
Sending you somewhere else
Than where you had to be
Making it that much
Harder now
And though
You’re struggling to get on track
It pales somewhat to the fact
That Mother Nature goes to heaven
And there will be no sadder day
When all the birds
Have flown away
Writer(s): Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Magne, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen
Copyright: BMG Rights Management Gmbh (Germany), BMG Rights Management Gmbh
****************************************
Nothing Is Keeping You Here
The lights change on the hill
The air seems strangely still
Everyone’s asleep
The floorboards creak at dawn
As you walk out on the lawn
The grass is wet beneath
You think it rather strange
You think it rather weird
It’s fair to say that
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
The phone is off the hook
As you sink into a book
You don’t know where you are
From the world; detached
Unto a girl you latched
It never got too far
And everybody talks
And everybody stares
It’s safe to say that
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
And everybody’s dawn
And everybody cares
You knew your day to shine
Would come without you here
Come without you here...
Nothing was keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
Writer(s): Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Magne, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen
Copyright: BMG Rights Management Gmbh (Germany), BMG Rights Management Gmbh
album: "Cast In Steel" (2015)
Cast In Steel
Meet me at the turnaround
Stop your car and look around
There I will be waiting
Forget for once how everything
Fades
It fades away
I’ll never get over what we said
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true
To be right
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel
We made a pact
Eye to eye
Cross your heart
And hope to die
Can you see the end of things?
Can you see it happening?
Feel the ashes on the wind
Don’t you hate how everything
Falls
Just falls away
I’ll never get over what we said
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true
To be right
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel
We made a pact
Eye to eye
Cross your heart
And hope to die
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true
Set in stone
And cast in steel
To be right and
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel
****************************************
Under The Makeup
This is how it ends
Each on our own
Unless we pretend
Meanwhile our hearts turn to stone
Shaped by wind
Boulders slowly molded over time
Here within
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup
Let all the worry
Vanish away
I want to hold you
Like it’s the first time
Like you were still mine
If you wanted out
Didn’t I let you go
If you wanted in
Didn’t I make it so
It could be
Tenderness escapes so easily
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup
Let all the worry
Vanish away
I want to hold you
Like it’s the first time
Like you were still mine
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup
Let all the worry
Vanish away
I want to touch you
Like it’s the first time
Like you were still mine
I, I want to see you
Under the makeup...
****************************************
The Wake
Can't change the one you are
Can't change the one you love
Lower your guard
I've made a few mistakes
I'll tell you what it takes
Under the stars
Have you seen the other me at times?
Walking on an ever looser line
Baby this is a wake
You and I will not escape
As time goes by
The world's never been older
Your head on my shoulder
So close your eyes
Stung by normality
Wronged by your family
Conventions aside
Cannot change the one you love
From inside – or from above
Just hold him tight
Walking on an ever looser line
But love has let me over every time
Baby we're on a wake
You and I will not escape
Just close your eyes
The world's never been older
Your head on my shoulder
As time goes by
Baby this is a wake
None of us will escape
Who we are
The world's never been older
Your head on my shoulder
As time goes by
****************************************
Objects In The Mirror
You drive down your old street
Familiar smiles from those you meet
You’ve been around been everywhere
But objects in the rear view mirror
Are closer than they appear
Looking back is bittersweet
When the world was at your feet
Love would make your life complete
No one makes it on their own
You’ve come so far
In your comfortable car
Now objects in the rear view mirror
Seem closer than they are
Looking back is bittersweet
All the world was at your feet
Love could make your life complete
Yeah, love could make your life complete
Teach your heart to skip a beat
Lift your eyes above the street
This is where you once belonged
Come on now, its not so bad
Thinking back on the fund we had
We can stitch a life together
With the fibres of the past
But you cannot make a fleeting moment
Promise it will last
Looking back is bittersweet
Love the world was at your feet
Lift your eyes above the street
This is where you once belonged
Been everywhere
And now you’re here
And objects in the rear view mirror
Seem to disappear
****************************************
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
I hit my head on the pillow, hard
I heard a noise from the boulevard
And it made me go down
I left the door to my room ajar
Felt the rumble of the street-car
And it spiralled me down
If you could see me
Swallowed by darkness
What would it matter
Would it awaken
Feelings forsaken
Faded and scattered
Would you come running
If you could hear me
Some way or another
That’s what I’m thinking
Watching the stars reflect in the gutter
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
I hit my heard on the pillow, hard
I took the words that you said to heart
And it made me feel down
When I awoke it was dark outside
Just a flicker from a traffic light
And it signalled me down
If you could see me
Swallowed in darkness
What would it matter
Would it awaken
Feelings forsaken
Faded and scattered
Would you come running
If you could hear me
Some way or another
That’s what I’m thinking
Watching the stars reflect in the gutter
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
Door Ajar
****************************************
Living At The End Of The World
Sometimes it leaves me with fear
Never saw the horizon this near
Look to the left then to the right
I tuck you in and kiss you goodnight
See there is something I know
We are not whom we’re told
We are more than we’ll never know
And we’re living at the end of the world
Forget about all that you’ve heard
Living our dreams on the highway
It’s just another day
No matter what they say or you’ve heard
We’re living on top of the world
We’re living our dreams on the highway
No matter what they say
It’s just another day
I hear your heart beat in the night
You are like an echo of light
But in times when shallow runs deep
Your golden beauty goes cheap
Still there is something I know
Something yet to unfold
And we are more than we’ll never know
And we’re living at the end of the world
Forget about all that you’ve heard
Living our dreams on the highway
It’s just another day
No matter what they say or you’ve heard
We’ve made it to the top of the world
Building up speed on the highway
We’ve made it to the end
Living at the end of the world
Forget about all that you’ve heard
No matter what they say or you’ve heard
We’ve made it to the top of the world
Building up speed on the highway
We’ve made it to the end of the world
****************************************
Mythomania
You walked a mile on broken glass
Through glowing coals you were a path
The words on your tongue a mechanical song
Your face is lined with disappointment
Oh white matter mind, what have you got to say?
Reasons combine to force you away
You’re moving on
You solved the problem
And who can’t blame you
You’re safe in here
Inside your castle
In mythomania, mythomania
Cold crescent moon on a red cross
Its happening soon ti’s coming for us
Oh white matter mind, what is there left to say?
Reasons combined to force you away
No telephone
No television
No news that drain you
You’re safer here
More atmosphere
In mythomania, in mythomania, mythomania
You caught belief
Like some disease
No words can save you
Cuz you’re all along
You’re on your own
In mythomania
****************************************
She's Humming A Tune
She’s humming a tune
To keep herself from thinking
About all that she’s facing
But her mind is racing
Over and over again
And I don’t suppose she knows
Everything that’s bound to happen
How and where the story goes
And I don’t why I care
She’s up tight, not right
How could it matter to me
She’s humming a tune
To keep herself from straying
When everything’s swaying
And decisions are weighing
Ever so hard on her mind
And I don’t suppose she knows
Everything that’s bound to happen
How and where the story goes
And I don’t know if it just
I’m bummed out, no doubt
What does it matter to me
She’s up tight, not right
How could it matter to me
And I don’t suppose she knows
She’s up tight, not right
How could it matter to me
****************************************
Shadow Endeavors
Why breathe a word
When no one needs to know
Why say a thing
To another living soul
Let us pay no mind
To a world that seems unkind
For here is something to shelter
Now more than ever
Shadow endeavours
Our shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Why leave us open
And naked to the sun
Why draw their fire
That they’ll surely reign upon us
Let us pay no mind
To their words and bitter lines
For here’s something to shelter
And now more than ever
Shadow endeavours
These shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
Shadow endeavours
More than ever
Shadow endeavours
Only ever happened to me once
It doesn’t come again
I think somebody left me here
Afraid and lonely
A long time ago
Only ever happened to me once
It doesn’t come again
I think somebody left me here
Afraid and lonely
A long time ago
****************************************
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson goodbye
I tape the sign to the door
Here we pinned all our dreams
Now the store is no more
What comes after what was
That was once strangely new
What awaits up ahead
For me and you?
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
This space is for rent
See me head hanging low
All my energies spent
What comes after what was
That was once strangely new
What awaits up ahead
I wish I knew
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
Goodbye Thompson Goodbye
What comes after what was
That was once strangely new
What awaits up ahead
For me and you
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
Goodbye Thompson
****************************************
The End Of The Affair
Even as the snow is falling
Dark December nights are calling
Memories of early warning signs
Like a whisper in the mind
I put my brave face on
Robbed of the love I owned
It’s the end of the affair
We are not who we once were
Hard to be open when all facts are in
Hard to write endings before we begin
It’s the end of the affair
And it seems we no longer care
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Well I was fond but now I’m harder
So here we are in somber silence
With no one else but us to blame
Hard to be honest when others pretend
Hard to begin when we already know the end
It’s the end of the affair
And it seems we no longer care
****************************************
Mother Nature Goes To Heaven
Wrong
You never got it wrong
You always got it right
But now some time has passed;
You’re ever so slightly off
Thing you could do asleep
In a not too distant past,
Are trying your patience
Harder now
And though
Everything moves along
You hope the rumour’s wrong
That Mother Nature
Goes to heaven
Right
You never got it wrong
It always got away
When you had it nailed
It was ever so slightly off
Sending you somewhere else
Than where you had to be
Making it that much
Harder now
And though
You’re struggling to get on track
It pales somewhat to the fact
That Mother Nature goes to heaven
And there will be no sadder day
When all the birds
Have flown away
Writer(s): Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Magne, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen
Copyright: BMG Rights Management Gmbh (Germany), BMG Rights Management Gmbh
****************************************
Nothing Is Keeping You Here
The lights change on the hill
The air seems strangely still
Everyone’s asleep
The floorboards creak at dawn
As you walk out on the lawn
The grass is wet beneath
You think it rather strange
You think it rather weird
It’s fair to say that
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
The phone is off the hook
As you sink into a book
You don’t know where you are
From the world; detached
Unto a girl you latched
It never got too far
And everybody talks
And everybody stares
It’s safe to say that
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
And everybody’s dawn
And everybody cares
You knew your day to shine
Would come without you here
Come without you here...
Nothing was keeping you here
Nothing is keeping you here
Writer(s): Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Magne, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen
Copyright: BMG Rights Management Gmbh (Germany), BMG Rights Management Gmbh
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