Abba - The Hits

ABBA

THE HITS (1986)

  1. Waterloo
  2. S.O.S.
  3. Dancing Queen
  4. Knowing Me Knowing You
  5. Lay All Your Love On Me
  6. Super Trouper
  7. Take A Chance On Me
  8. I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do
  9. Honey Honey
10. Hasta Mañana
11. The Visitors
12. Mamma Mia

ABBA

THE HITS

1. WATERLOO

My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself

Waterloo, I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo, promise to love you for ever more
Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo, knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo, finally facing my Waterloo

My, my, I tried to hold you back, but you were stronger
Oh yeah, and now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight
And how could I ever refuse
I feel like I win when I lose

Waterloo, I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo, promise to love you for ever more
Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo, knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo, finally facing my Waterloo

So how could I ever refuse
I feel like I win when I lose

Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to
Waterloo, knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo, finally facing my Waterloo

Waterloo, knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo, finally facing my Waterloo.

2. S.O.S.

Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find
I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind
Whatever happened to our love?
I wish I understood
It used to be so nice, it used to be so good

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try how can I carry on?

You seem so far away though you are standing near
You made me feel alive, but something died I fear
I really tried to make it out
I wish I understood
What happened to our love, it used to be so good

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try how can I carry on?

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
And the love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try how can I carry on?
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try how can I carry on?

3. DANCING QUEEN

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen

Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for the place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come in to look for a king
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music's high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance

You are the Dancing Queen
Young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen

You're a teaser, you turn 'em on
Leave them burning and then you're gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance

You are the Dancing Queen
Young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen

Dig in the Dancing Queen.

4. KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU

No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an empty house, tears in my eyes
Here is where the story ends, this is goodbye

Knowing me, knowing you
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you
We just have to face it, this time we're through
This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through
Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go
I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do

Mem'ries, good days, bad days
Mem'ries, good days, bad days
They'll be with me always
They'll be with me always
In these old familiar rooms children would play
Now there's only emptiness, nothing to say

Knowing me, knowing
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you
We just have to face it, this time we're through
This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through
Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go
I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do

Knowing me, knowing you
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you
We just have to face it, this time we're through
This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through
Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go
I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do.

5. LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME

I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every woman I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice
But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned has overturned
I beg of you
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me

It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small-talk, a smile and, baby, I was stuck
I still don't know what you've done with me
A grown-up woman should never fall so easily
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride
I beg you dear

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me

I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce
I used to think that was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible
'Cause everything is new
And everything is you
And all I've learned has overturned
What can I do

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me.

6. SUPER TROUPER

Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won't feel blue
Like I always do
'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow
All I do is eat and sleep and sing
Wishing every show was the last show
Wishing every show was the last show
So imagine I was glad to hear you're coming
Glad to hear you're coming
Suddenly I feel all right
And suddenly it's gonna be
And it's gonna be so different
When I'm on the stage tonight

Tonight the Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Super Trouper
Smiling, having fun
Super Trouper
Feeling like a number one
Tonight the Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won't feel blue
Super Trouper
Like I always do
Super Trouper
'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you

Facing twenty thousand of your friends
How can anyone be so lonely
Part of a success that never ends
Still I'm thinking about you only
Still I'm thinking about you only
There are moments when I think I'm going crazy
Think I'm going crazy
But it's gonna be alright
You'll soon be changing everything
Everything will be so different
When I'm on the stage tonight

Tonight the Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Super Trouper
Smiling, having fun
Super Trouper
Feeling like a number one
Tonight the Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won't feel blue
Super Trouper
Like I always do
Super Trouper
'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you

So I'll be there when you arrive
The sight of you will prove to me I'm still alive
And when you take me in your arms
And hold me tight
I know it's gonna mean so much tonight

Tonight the Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Super Trouper
Smiling, having fun
Super Trouper
Feeling like a number one
Tonight the Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won't feel blue
Super Trouper
Like I always do
uper Trouper
'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you
Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Super Trouper
Smiling, having fun
Super Trouper
Feeling like a number one.

7. TAKE A CHANCE ON ME

If you change your mind, I'm the first in line
Honey I'm still free, take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around
If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down

If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best and it ain't no lie
If you put me to the test, if you let me try

Take a chance on me
That's all I ask of you, honey
Take a chance on me

We can go dancing
We can go walking
As long as we're together
Listen to some music
Maybe just talking
Get to know you better
'Cause you know I've got
So much that I wanna do
When I dream I'm alone with you
It's magic
You want me to leave it there
Afraid of a love affair
But I think you know
That I can't let go

If you change your mind, I'm the first in line
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around
If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down
If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best and it ain't no lie
If you put me to the test, if you let me try

Take a chance on me
Come on, give me a break, will you?
Take a chance on me

Oh, you can take your time, baby
I'm in no hurry
Know I'm gonna get you
You don't wanna hurt me
Baby don't worry
I ain't gonna let you

Let me tell you now
My love is strong enough
To last when things are rough
It's magic
You say that I waste my time
But I can't get you off my mind
No I can't let go
'Cause I love you so

If you change your mind, I'm the first in line
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around
If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down
If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best, baby, can't you see
Gotta put me to the test, take a chance on me
Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me

Ba ba ba ba baa
Ba ba ba ba baa
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best, baby, can't you see
Gotta put me to the test, take a chance on me
Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me

Ba ba ba ba baa
Ba ba ba ba baa ba-ba
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best, baby, can't you see.

8. I DO I DO I DO I DO I DO

Love me or leave me, make your choice, but believe me
I love you
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
I can't conceal it, don't you see, can't you feel it?
Don't you too?
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

Oh, I've been dreaming through my lonely past
Now I just made it, I found you at last

So come on, now let's try it, I love you, can't deny it
'Cause it's true
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

Oh, no hard feelings between you and me
If we can't make it, but just wait and see

So come on, now let's try it, I love you, can't deny it
'Cause it's true
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
So love me or leave me, make your choice but believe me
I love you
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
I can't conceal it, don't you see, can't you feel it?
Don't you too?
I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.

9. HONEY HONEY

Honey honey, how you thrill me, honey, honey
Honey honey, nearly kill me, honey, honey
I'd heard about you before
I wanted to know some more
And now I know what they mean, you're a love machine
Oh, you make me dizzy

Honey, honey, let me feel it, honey, honey
Honey, honey, don't conceal it, honey, honey
The way that you kiss goodnight
The way that you kiss me goodnight
The way that you hold me tight
The way that you're holding me tight
I feel like I wanna sing when you do your thing

I don't wanna hurt you, baby, I don't wanna see you cry
So stay on the ground, girl, you better not get too high

But I'm gonna stick to you, boy, you'll never get rid of me
There's no other place in this world where I rather would be

Honey, honey, touch me, baby, honey, honey
Honey, honey, hold me, baby, honey, honey
You look like a movie star
You look like a movie star
But I know just who you are
I know just who you are
And, honey, to say the least, you're a dog-gone beast

So stay on the ground, girl, you better not get too high

There's no other place in this world where I rather would be

Honey, honey, how you thrill me, honey, honey
Honey, honey, nearly kill me, honey, honey
I heard about you before
I wanted to know some more
And now I know what they mean, you're a love machine.

10. HASTA MAÑANA

Where is the spring and the summer
That once was yours and mine?
Where did it go?
I just don't know
But still my love for you will live forever

Hasta mañana 'til we meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
Darling, our love was much too strong to die
We'll find a way to face a new tomorrow
Hasta mañana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta mañana, baby, hasta mañana, until then

Where is the dream we were dreaming
And all the nights we shared
Where did they go?
I just don't know
And I can't tell you just how much I miss you
Hasta mañana, 'til we meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
Darling, our love was much too strong to die
We'll find a way to face a new tomorrow
Hasta mañana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta mañana, baby, hasta mañana, until then

Hasta mañana, say we'll meet again
I can't do without you
Time to forget, send me a letter
Say you forgive, the sooner the better
Hasta mañana, baby, hasta mañana, until then.

11. THE VISITORS

I hear the door-bell ring and suddenly the panic takes me
The sound so ominously tearing through the silence
I cannot move, I'm standing
Numb and frozen
Among the things I love so dearly
The books, the paintings and the furniture
Help me

The signal's sounding once again and someone tries the doorknob
None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient
And they don't dare to come here
Anymore now
But how I loved our secret meetings
We talked and talked in quiet voices
Smiling

Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm crackin' up
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror ever-growing
Crackin' up
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up

These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation
And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces
And now they've come to take me
Come to break me
And yet it isn't unexpected
I have been waiting for these visitors
Help me

Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm crackin' up
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror ever-growing
Crackin' up
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up

Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm crackin' up
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up
I have been waiting for these visitors
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror ever-growing
Crackin' up
I have been waiting for these visitors
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up
I have been waiting for these visitors
Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm crackin' up
I have been waiting for these visitors
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up
I have been waiting for these visitors
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror ever-growing
Crackin' up
I have been waiting for these visitors
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up.

12. MAMMA MIA

I've been cheated by you since I don't know when
So I made up my mind, it must come to an end
Look at me now, will I ever learn?
I don't know how but I suddenly lose control
There's a fire within my soul
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
One more look and I forget everything

Mamma mia, here I go again
My, my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
My, my, just how much I've missed you
Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Blue since the day we parted
Why, why did I ever let you go?
Mamma mia, now I really know
My, my, I could never let you go

I've been angry and sad about things that you do
I can't count all the times that I've told you we're through
And when you go, when you slam the door
I think you know that you won't be away too long
You know that I'm not that strong
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
One more look and I forget everything

Mamma mia, here I go again
My, my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
My, my, just how much I've missed you
Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Blue since the day we parted
Why, why did I ever let you go?
Mamma mia, even if I say
Bye, bye, leave me now or never
Mamma mia, it's a game we play
Bye, bye doesn't mean forever

Mamma mia, here I go again
My, my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
My, my, just how much I've missed you
Yes, I've been brokenhearted
Blue since the day we parted
Why, why did I ever let you go
Mamma mia, now I really know
My, my, I could never let you go.

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