a-ha

Released: October 19, 1984

Songwriter: Pål Waaktaar-Savoy Morten Harket Magne Furuholmen

Producer: Alan Tarney John Ratcliff

[Verse 1]
We're talking away
I don't know what I'm to say
I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, okay?

[Chorus]
Take on me (Take on me)
Take me on (Take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two

[Verse 2]
So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is okay
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry

[Chorus]
Take on me (Take on me)
Take me on (Take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day or two

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Oh, things that you say
Is it a life or just to play my worries away?
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway

[Outro]
Take on me (Take on me)
Take me on (Take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day
Take on me (Take on me)
Take me on (Take on me)
I'll be gone
In a day

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.

more tracks from the album

Hunting High and Low

From the albums

Hunting High and Low (1985)
Sessions Presents: Night Beat (1988)
Only Dance 1985-1989 (1995)
The Greatest Of The Eighties [SWE] (1996)
VH1 The Big 80s (1996)
Grosse Pointe Blank: More Music From the Film (1997)
Millennium ’80s New Wave Party (1999)
Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) (2002)
Just Dance 3 Official Tracklist (2011)
Despicable Me 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017)
Bumblebee (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
100 Greatest Workout Songs: Top Tracks for the Gym (2019)

a-ha popular songs

Take On Me​a-ha

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Hunting High and Low

Take On Mea-ha

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