A French language film “La Veille de Ton Arrivee” A new member of the “usual bunch” perhaps who appeared the next day who became her soulmate, her life partner cruelly taken away. Tears pouring down her face as she remembers the time they had together before cancer or brain tumour or road traffic accident took him away. In another version I can picture her two years later standing over his body, lifeless in a hospital or at a graveside. A 3 part ITV drama “The Day Before You Came” A standard romantic drama girl meets boy, they fall in love, they break up, they try again but no. Certainly it fits the ABBA narrative of their break ups. Life was mundane before you, it’s worse now, we’re over. Maybe he was married and she was thrilled by being the other woman but that spark went out. They met on the train the next day and had an exciting affair. Option one could be that the singer is just sitting in that same house 6 months later talking to a lover with whom she’s become bored. I’m surprised they haven’t, a slightly darker “Mama Mia” perhaps…. So this is where I start my musings into the missing story which could make a novel or film or TV series. The video hints at something then drifts away. Where did she go? For me though the most fascinating part is between the end of this fairly mundane day in someone’s life and the time at which they decided they needed to reflect on it and we must assume direct it at whoever “you” was. Benny Andersson, Interview with ĭespite there being some discrepancy in the lyric such as the hour long train journey in the morning becoming just over 3 hours on the way home even allowing for the stop of at the Chinese. But when you put that lyric onto that music you realise something not good has happened. To me, when you read that lyric and take the music away it’s just someone saying what they did that day - ‘I read a book’, ‘I watched TV’, ‘I took the tube’, whatever it doesn’t say what it really is. The recording is sad too, but the lyric itself is not sad, which is the genius of Bjorn (Ulvaeus). It becomes extremely sad when you hear it like this. They were planning their futures after Abba and that included solo careers for Agneta and Frida and musical theatre for Benny and Bjorn which you can hear in the song. It was the lowest charting ABBA song and all members of the band admit to the sadness they were all feeling at the time. Sung by Agneta with backing from Frida over a pretty basic backing track. It was one of the last songs released by ABBA and at 6 minutes one of the longest. Switching to Barbara Cartland is a stroke of genius. What had happened to prompt this retrospective of the day before he or she came? I’ll admit there is a huge amount of this kind of reflection on this song available online and I doubt I’ll add much you cant find on Wikipedia.Īs much as I love the Blancmange version, if I’m honest I think I prefer it. The Blancmange version is dark and with such a sadness in Neil Arthur’s voice that it got me thinking about who “you” was. Listening to Blancmange recently I was reminded of this phenomenal ABBA song.
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