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Foot of the Mountain (MTV Unplugged)​a-ha

Released: October 6, 2017

Songwriter: Martin Terefe Magne Furuholmen Pål Waaktaar-Savoy

Producer: Lars Horntveth

[Verse 1]
Keep your clever lines, hold your easy rhymes
Silence everything, silence always wins
It's a perfect alibi, there's no need to analyse
It will be all right through the longest night, just silence everything

[Chorus]
We could live by the foot of the mountain
We could clear us a yard in the back
Build a home by the foot of the mountain
We could stay there and never come back

[Verse 2]
Learn from my mistake, leave what others take
Speak when spoken to, just do what others do
Silence always wins, so silence everything
It will be all right in the morning light, just silence everything

[Chorus]
We could live by the foot of the mountain
We could clear us a yard in the back
Build a home by the foot of the mountain
We could stay there, see how it ends
We could stay there and never come back

We could live by the foot of a mountain
We could make us a white picket fence
Build a home by the foot of the mountain
We could stay there and see how it ends
We could stay there and see how it ends
We could stay there and see how it ends

(spoken)
[Morten]
Alright, so you know that some of this is probably gonna go on a record. Um..

[Magne Furuholmen]
Some!

[Morten]
Maybe all of it, who knows! So you're part of this, uh, recording, um, of a TV special, uh, mentioned it going in, for MTV, took us thirty years after we, uh, were first shown on MTV to get there. So- but you know. It's great. It's great to, erm- It's actually, it's actually given us, uh, erm- I mean, doing this, uh, this Unplugged has given us a, um, a whole different take on our own songs, you know, we sort of dismantled everything, and- and- and started from scratch, uh, and some places started somewhere else, and it's actually been really fantastic experience to do it. Uh, I think we all got inspired, and-

[Magne]
But we are slow

[Morten]
Very friendly in the process

[Magne]
We are slow. I think ten years ago MTV sort of gave up trying to get us to do this thing

[Morten]
And here we are

[Magne]
And- and here we are! That's right

​a-ha

A-ha is a Norweigian synth pop group formed in 1982. All ten of their studio albums have either reached #1 or #2 in Norway – the first three also reaching the top 10 in several countries across Europe – with a total of over 35 million sold worldwide. They became a ‘teen pin-up band’ and were followed by screaming, enthusiastic fans. In 2012, all three members were appointed to knighthood in Norway for their contributions to music.

Frontman Morten Harket was lured away from the blues/soul group Soldier Blue in 1982 by keyboardist Magne Furuholmen to join his band with guitarist Paul Waaktaar. When Harket saw a song in Waaktaar’s notebook that was going to be titled either “a-ha” or “A-hem”, he suggested naming the band “a-ha”.

A year later, the band released their debut single “Take On Me” in 1984 to huge success in Norway. However, when the song was re-recorded and re-released alongside their debut album Hunting High And Low in the summer of 1985 it achieved massive international success, reaching #1 in eleven countries. Its success was definitely aided by its groundbreaking, award-winning music video of pencil-sketch animation combined with live-action shots.

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