Released: July 6, 2010
Songwriter: Pål Waaktaar-Savoy
Hey!
Hey!
He likes to have the morning paper's crossword solved
Words go up, words come down
Forwards, backwards, twisted round
He doesn't act that strangely now there's people around
He's looking at their faces
They won't stick in his mind
Hoo-hoo-hoooo-hoo
He grabs a pile of letters from a small suitcase
Disappears into an office
It's another working day
And his thoughts are full of strangers
Corridors of naked lights
And his mind once full of reason
Now there's more than meets the eye
Now a stranger's face he carries with him
Ooooh
He likes a bit of reading on the subway home
Yeah
A distant radio's whistling tunes that nobody knows
He says "Hey... Won't you hurry? Hurry!"
A sudden interruption on his train of thought
This Monday is the Tuesday from the week before
He-he-he
Hoo-hoo-hoooo
Yeah
At home a house awaits him
He unlocks the door
Thinking "once there was a sea here
But there never was a door"
And his thoughts are full of strangers
And his eyes too numb to see
And nothing that he knows of
And nowhere where he's been
Was never quite like this
Yeah!
And at heart, he's full of strangers
Dodging on his train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Hey!
He likes to have the morning paper's crossword solved
Words go up, words come down
Forwards, backwards, twisted round
He doesn't act that strangely now there's people around
He's looking at their faces
They won't stick in his mind
Hoo-hoo-hoooo-hoo
He grabs a pile of letters from a small suitcase
Disappears into an office
It's another working day
And his thoughts are full of strangers
Corridors of naked lights
And his mind once full of reason
Now there's more than meets the eye
Now a stranger's face he carries with him
Ooooh
He likes a bit of reading on the subway home
Yeah
A distant radio's whistling tunes that nobody knows
He says "Hey... Won't you hurry? Hurry!"
A sudden interruption on his train of thought
This Monday is the Tuesday from the week before
He-he-he
Hoo-hoo-hoooo
Yeah
At home a house awaits him
He unlocks the door
Thinking "once there was a sea here
But there never was a door"
And his thoughts are full of strangers
And his eyes too numb to see
And nothing that he knows of
And nowhere where he's been
Was never quite like this
Yeah!
And at heart, he's full of strangers
Dodging on his train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
Train of thought
more tracks from the album
Hunting High and Low (Deluxe Edition, Disc 2)
- Monday Mourning
- Train of Thought (Demo)
- Hunting High and Low (Demo)
- Here I Stand And Face The Rain (Demo)
- Lesson One (1982 Naersnes Demo)
- The Blue Sky (2nd Demo)
- Take on me - demo
- Stop and Make Your Mind Up
- All the Planes That Come in On the Quiet
- The Love Goodbye
- Driftwood
- Go to Sleep
- Presenting Lily Mars
- What’s That You’re Doing to Yourself
- Never Never
- Dot the I
- You Have Grown Thoughtful Again
- Nothing to It
- And You Tell Me (Demo)
From the album
a-ha popular songs
- Take On Me
- Take on Me (MTV Unplugged)
- Hunting High and Low
- The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
- Stay On These Roads
- Crying in the Rain
- The Living Daylights
- Manhattan Skyline
- Lifelines
- Train of Thought
- MANHATAN SKYLINE
- Cry Wolf
- We’re Looking For The Whales
- The Weight Of The Wind
- Maybe Maybe
- Soft Rains Of April
- Scoundrel Days
- How Sweet It Was
- Velvet (New York City mix)
- You Wanted More
- Did Anyone Approach You?
- Sycamore Leaves
- Dark Is The Night
- Thought That It Was You