1982년 10월 18일에 발매된 싱글 수록곡입니다. 앨범 발매 당시에는 그렇게 인기가 있는 곡은 아니었지만, 지금은 ABBA 팬들이 좋아하는 ABBA 곡 중 항상 상위권에 기록되는 곡입니다. 기존의 ABBA곡들과는 약간 다른 스타일의 곡인데, ABBA의 작사, 작곡을 담당하는 Bjorn Ulvaeus와 Benny Andersson이 뮤지컬을 염두에 두고 썼다는 말이 있습니다. 아마 가사가 하나의 서사를 다루는 것처럼 되어 있어서 그런 것 같습니다.

(가사)
I must have left my house at eight
because I always do
my train, I’m certain
left the station just when it was due
I must have read the morning paper
going into town
and having gotten through the editorial
no doubt I must have frowned
I must have made my desk
around a quarter after nine
with letters to be read
and heaps of papers waiting to be signed
I must have gone to lunch
at half past twelve or so
the usual place, the usual bunch
and still on top of this
I’m pretty sure it must have rained
the day before you came

I must have lit my seventh
cigarette at half past two
and at the time I never
even noticed I was blue
I must have kept on dragging
through the business of the day
without really knowing anything
I hid a part of me away
at five I must have left
there’s no exception to the rule
a matter of routine
I’ve done it ever since I finished school
the train back home again
undoubtedly I must have
read the evening paper then
oh yes, I’m sure my life was
well within its usual frame
the day before you came

I must have opened my front door
at eight o’clock or so
and stopped along the way
to buy some Chinese food to go
I’m sure I had my dinner
watching something on TV
there’s not, I think, a single
episode of Dallas that I didn’t see
I must have gone to bed
around a quarter after ten
I need a lot of sleep and so
I like to be in bed by then
I must have read a while
the latest one by Marilyn French
or something in that style
it’s funny, but I had no sense
of living without aim
the day before you came

And turning out the light
I must have yawned and
cuddled up for yet another night
and rattling on the roof
I must have heard the sound of rain
the day before you came

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