ABBA

Released: August 18, 1986

Songwriter: Stig Anderson Björn Ulvaeus Benny Andersson

Producer: Michael B. Tretow

The Name of the Game

[Verse: Agnetha & Frida]
I've seen you twice, in a short time
Only a week since we started
It seems to me, for every time
I'm getting more open-hearted

[Pre-Chorus: Agnetha, Agnetha & Frida]
I was an impossible case
No one ever could reach me
But I think I can see in your face
There's a lot you can teach me
So I wanna know

[Chorus: Agnetha & Frida]
What's the name of the game?
Does it mean anything to you?
What's the name of the game?
Can you feel it the way I do?

[Post-Chorus: Frida]
Tell me, please, 'cause I have to know
I'm a bashful child beginning to grow

[Bridge: Frida]
And you make me talk
Doo-doo, doo-doo
And you make me feel
Doo-doo, doo-doo
And you make me show
Doo-doo, doo-doo
What I'm trying to conceal
Doo-doo, doo-doo
If I trust in you
Doo-doo, doo-doo
Would you let me down?
Doo-doo, doo-doo
Would you laugh at me
Doo-doo, doo-doo
If I said I care for you?
Ah-ah
Could you feel the same way too, I wanna know
Oh, yes, I wanna know

[Chorus: Agnetha & Frida]
The name of the game
I was an impossible case
Does it mean anything to you?
But I think I can see in your face that it means a lot
What's the name of the game?
Your smile and the sound of your voice
Can you feel it the way I do?
Got a feeling you give me no choice, but it means a lot

[Outro: Agnetha & Frida]
What's the name of the game?
I was an impossible case
Does it mean anything to you?
But I think I can see in your face that it means a lot
That it means a lot
That it means a lot
That it means a lot
That it means a lot
That it means a lot
That it means a lot
That it means a lot

Eagle

[Verse 1: Agnetha & Frida]
They came flying from far away
Now I'm under their spell
I love hearing the stories that they tell

[Verse 2: Agnetha & Frida]
They've seen places beyond my land
And they've found new horizons
They speak strangely but I understand

[Pre-Chorus 1: Agnetha & Frida]
And I dream I'm an eagle
And I dream I can spread my wings

[Chorus: Agnetha & Frida]
Flying high, high
I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high
What a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

[Verse 3: Agnetha & Frida]
As all good friends we talk all night
And we fly wing to wing
I have questions and they know everything

[Verse 4: Agnetha & Frida]
There's no limit to what I feel
We climb higher and higher
Am I dreaming or is it all real?

[Pre-Chorus 2: Agnetha & Frida]
Is it true I'm an eagle?
Is it true I can spread my wings?

[Chorus: Agnetha & Frida]
Flying high, high
I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high
What a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

[Chorus: Agnetha & Frida]
Flying high, high
I'm a bird in the sky
I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze
High, high
What a feeling to fly
Over mountains and forests and seas
And to go anywhere that I please

[Instrumental Outro]

ABBA are one of the greatest pop outfits in history. Their blend of lush orchestrations and light, bouncy europop was both unique and commercially appealing, taking much of the world by storm.

The band name is a member-centric acronym – Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

Their meteoric rise was sparked by their famed Eurovision performance of original song “Waterloo”, which caused them to win the 1974 competition in Sweden.

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