The Day Before You Came

Song The Day Before You Came
Artist ABBA
Album Collected

Lyrics

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[00:01.920] The Day Before You Came
[00:10.30] I must have left my house at eight because I always do
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[00:17.530] My train I'm certain left the station just when it was due
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[00:25.320] I must have read the morning paper going into town
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[00:33.260] And having gotten through the editoria no doubt I must have frowned
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[00:42.0] I must have made my desk
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[00:44.760] Around a quarter after nine
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[00:50.880] With letters to be read
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[00:53.190] And heaps of papers waiting to be signed
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[00:59.920] I must have gone to lunch
[01:02.110] At half past twelve or so the usual place, the usual bunch
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[01:08.720] And still on top of this I'm pretty sure it must have rained
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[01:15.410] The day before you came
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[01:21.10] I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two
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[01:28.890] And at the time I never even noticed I was blue
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[01:36.680] I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day
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[01:44.680] Without really knowing anything I hid a part of me away
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[01:53.229] At five I must have left
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[01:56.110] There's no exception to the rule
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[02:01.960] A matter of routine
[02:04.400] I've done it ever since I finished school
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[02:10.320] The train back home again
[02:13.390] Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then
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[02:20.120] Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within its usual frame
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[02:26.800] The day before you came
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[03:03.930] I must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so
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[03:11.290] And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go
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[03:18.970] I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV
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[03:26.890] There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see
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[03:35.870] I must have gone to bed
[03:38.560] Around a quarter after ten
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[03:44.730] I need a lot of sleep
[03:46.990] And so I like to be in bed by then
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[03:52.850] I must have read a while
[03:55.840] The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style
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[04:02.620] It's funny but I had no sense of living without aim
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[04:09.240] The day before you came
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[04:14.850] And turning out the light
[04:16.910] I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night
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[04:23.720] And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain
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[04:30.450] The day before you came
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