Best album (pt.8) - a-ha, Stay On These Roads

It's almost Christmas and we have the family visiting us, so it's obvious that I'm not sleeping in my bed and I'm moving to the attic to my 2x4 studio. I still don't know, but one of my favorite gifts is on its way... a-ha's third album, successor to "Hunting High And Low" (a must, also) and "Scoundrel Days".

The first song has the same name of the album and it's immense. That being said, the rest of the album is very different from the first and somewhat similar to the second. A group of songs that don't intent (nor pretend) to be "singles" and yet, they're remarkably inteligent in the way they approach music and words/stories. "The Blood That Moves The Body" and "Out Of The Blue Comes Green" are also favorites.

"The cold has a voice
It talks to me
Still-born by choice
And 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
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, yeah.

Stay on these roads
We shall meet, I know
Stay on, my love
We shall meet, I know.
So stay on! I know!
Stay, my love, stay on
We will meet, I know, I know!"

      in "Stay On These Roads" by a-ha