A-HA - TAKE ON ME

TAKE ON ME

A-HA

SONGWRITERS: MAGNE FURUHOLMEN; MORTEN HARKET & PAUL WAAKTAAR-SAVOY

COUNTRY: NORWAI

ALBUM: HUNTING HIGH AND LOW.

LABEL: WARNER BROS RECORDS

GENRE: SYNTHPOP.

YEAR:1985

Hunting High and Low is the debut studio album by Norwegian new wave band A-ha. Released on 1 June 1985 by Warner Bros. Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling more than 7.8 million units worldwide, peaking at number 15 on the US Billboard 200 and reaching high positions on charts worldwide. The album was recorded at Eel Pie Studios in Twickenham, produced by Tony Mansfield, John Ratcliff and Alan Tarney.

In all, five singles from the album were released, though not all were released internationally: "Take On Me", "Love Is Reason", "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.", "Train of Thought" and "Hunting High and Low". The group was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards in 1986, making A-ha the first Norwegian band to be nominated for a Grammy.

As part of a re-release of their first two albums, Hunting High and Low was expanded and remastered in 2010.

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, OK?

Take on me

Take me on

I'll be gone

In a day or two

So needless to say

I'm odds and ends

But I'll be stumbling anyway

Slowly learning that life is OK

Say after me

It's no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me

Take me on

I'll be gone

In a day or two

Oh the things that you say

Is it 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

Take on me

Take me on

I'll be gone

In a day or two.