Released: June 1, 1985
Songwriter: Pål Waaktaar-Savoy
Producer: Tony Mansfield
[Verse 1]
He likes to have the morning paper crossword solved
Words go up, words come down
Forwards, backwards, twisted 'round
He grabs a pile of letters from a small suitcase
Disappears into an office, it's another working day
[Chorus]
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
Oh, a stranger's face he carries with him
[Verse 2]
He likes a bit of reading on the subway home
A distant radio whistling tunes that nobody knows
At home a house awaits him, he unlocks the door
Thinking once there was a sea here but there never was a door
[Chorus]
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 ever quite like this
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
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
Oh, a stranger's face he carries with him
[Outro]
And at heart he's full of strangers
Dodging on his train of thought
Train of thought
He likes to have the morning paper crossword solved
Words go up, words come down
Forwards, backwards, twisted 'round
He grabs a pile of letters from a small suitcase
Disappears into an office, it's another working day
[Chorus]
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
Oh, a stranger's face he carries with him
[Verse 2]
He likes a bit of reading on the subway home
A distant radio whistling tunes that nobody knows
At home a house awaits him, he unlocks the door
Thinking once there was a sea here but there never was a door
[Chorus]
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 ever quite like this
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
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
Oh, a stranger's face he carries with him
[Outro]
And at heart he's full of strangers
Dodging on his train of thought
Train of thought
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Hunting High and Low (1985)
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
- Dark is the Night for All
- Locust
- Call Your Name
- East of the Sun, West of the Moon
- Hurry Home
- East of the Sun
- The Company Man
- Minor Earth Major Sky (Millenia Nova remix)
- Nonstop July (seemingly)
- Så Blåser Det På Jorden
- Train of Thought (remix)
- Hunting High and Low (remix)
- Summer Moved On (Remix)
- You Are the One (remix)