Stay on These Roads
A-Ha
℗ 1988 Warner Brothers Records 7599 25733
a-ha's recording career hit the skids in America with its third release. But in the U.K., the album became the group's third straight to peak at number two, though it charted for a shorter period than the first two albums, and there were four Top 25 hits — the title track, "The Blood That Moves the Body," "Touchy!," and "You Are the One." (Also included was a-ha's 1987 theme from the James Bond movie The Living Daylights, a U.K. number five that missed the U.S. charts.) Even in a country with a demonstrated affection for Scandinavians, however (remember ABBA?), that was a fall-off, if the decline was more gradual, and three albums in, a-ha wasn't demonstrating any development from its first hit, just more of the same and a little less distinctive. — William Ruhlmann. |
- 1. Stay on These Roads (Morten Harket — Mags — Pal Waaktaar) [04:45]
- 2. The Blood that Moves the Body (Pal Waaktaar) [04:05]
- 3. Touchy! (Morten Harket — Mags — Pal Waaktaar) [04:31]
- 4. This Alone is Love (Mags — Pal Waaktaar) [05:13]
- 5. Hurry Home (Mags — Pal Waaktaar) [04:34]
- 6. The Living Daylights (John Barry — Pal Waaktaar) [04:46]
- 7. There's Never a Forever Thing (Pal Waaktaar) [02:49]
- 8. Out of Blue Comes Green (Pal Waaktaar) [06:40]
- 9. You are the One (Mags — Pal Waaktaar) [03:48]
- 10. You'll End Up Crying (Pal Waaktaar) [02:06]
Участие в альбоме:
- Magne Furuholmen: keyboards, vocals
- Morten Harket: vocals
- Paul Waaktaar-Savoy: guitar, vocals
- Ann Dudley: keyboards
- Randy Hope-Taylor: bass, keyboards
- Kick Horns: horn
- Oystein Jevanord: drums
- Ben Robbins: bass, keyboards
- Steve Sidwell: trumpet
Тексты:
Stay on These Roads
(Morten Harket — Mags — Pal Waaktaar)
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 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
The Blood that Moves the Body
(Pal Waaktaar)
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
Touchy!
(Morten Harket — Mags — Pal Waaktaar)
Donna found us in her slow and dreamy way I can't hear a word the waiter says She's looking older now… the color 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, but 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 papers say The way she laughs at what I do I'm waiting for this moment to explain itself through Me I'm touchy…
This Alone is Love
(Mags — Pal Waaktaar)
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.
Hurry Home
(Mags — Pal Waaktaar)
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
The Living Daylights
(John Barry — Pal Waaktaar)
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 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
There's Never a Forever Thing
(Pal Waaktaar)
Dearest… Dry 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.
Out of Blue Comes Green
(Pal Waaktaar)
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
You are the One
(Mags — Pal Waaktaar)
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 to 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 to I've done all I can do All the letters… I've sent through Put my life in the palms of your hands 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!
You'll End Up Crying
(Pal Waaktaar)
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