Released: September 4, 2015

Songwriter: Pål Waaktaar-Savoy

Producer: Peter Kvint Pål Waaktaar-Savoy Erik Ljunggren

[Verse 1]
Meet me at the turnaround
Stop your car and look around
There I will be waiting
Forget for once how everything

Fades
It fades away

[Verse 2]
I’ll never get over what we said
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true

[Chorus]
To be right
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel

We made a pact
Eye to eye
Cross your heart
And hope to die

[Verse 3]
Can you see the end of things?
Can you see it happening?
Feel the ashes on the wind
Don’t you hate how everything

Falls
Just falls away

[Verse 4]
I’ll never get over what we said
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true

[Chorus]
To be right
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel

We made a pact
Eye to eye
Cross your heart
And hope to die

[Verse 4]
It lingers in my head
I’ll always remember what we knew
One hundred percent to be true

[Outro]
Set in stone
And cast in steel
To be right and
To be real
Set in stone
And cast in steel

​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.