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A-Ha - Stay On These Roads

Stay on These Roads is the third full-length album by the pop band A-ha.

It was released on 3 May 1988 by Warner Bros. Records.

Six singles were also relesed from this record.

Stay on These Roads was the band's third studio album. The album's peak on the Billboard 200 was 148. The album was another big hit by A-ha internationally, selling over 4 million copies worldwide. Stay on These Roads achieved Platinum status in Brazil and Gold in the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany and Double Platinum status in France.

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic said "in the U.K., the album became the group's third straight to peak at number two, though it charted for a shorter period than the first two albums, and there were four Top 25 hits—the title track, 'The Blood That Moves the Body,' 'Touchy!,' and 'You Are the One'."

Also included was A-ha's 1987 theme from the James Bond movie The Living Daylights, a U.K. number five that missed the U.S. charts.

Lead single "Stay on These Roads", number one in Norway, was a hit across Europe, including top-five showings in the UK, France, Austria and Ireland and top-ten chartings in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Stay on These Roads included three more hit singles, "The Blood That Moves The Body", "Touchy!" and "You Are the One", though a final single, "There's Never a Forever Thing", was released only in Brazil. None of the singles charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

The lyrics:

The cold has a voice

It talks to me

Stillborn, by choice

It airs no need to hold

Old man feels the cold...

Oh baby don't

'cause I've been told

Stay on these roads

We shall meet, I know

Stay on...my love

We shall meet, I know

I know

Where joy should reign

These skies restrain

'Shadow your love...'

The voice trails off again

Old man feels the cold

Oh baby don't

'cause I've been told

Stay on these roads

We shall meet, I know

Stay on...my love

You feel so weak, be strong

Stay on, stay on

We shall meet, I know

I know

I know, my love, I know

Feel the cold

Winter's calling on my home..

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A-Ha - Crying in The Rain (live)

Crying in the Rain is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Carole King and was originally recorded by The Everly Brothers. The single peaked at #6 on the U.S. pop charts in 1962.

In 1990, the Norwegian pop band A-ha covered the song. Following its success, A-ha became closer to the Everly Brothers, who had originally recorded the song. The band members were presented a set of guitars by the Everly Brothers that A-ha continues to use.

This is one of the few commercially available songs which A-ha have covered.

The only others being "Velvet", first released by Savoy, and "Dragonfly", first released by Magne Furuholmen.

Though often given the misnomer of "one-hit wonder" in the U.S., A-ha has actually had a number of singles appear on various charts there, though none anywhere near as big a hit as their debut, "Take On Me". "Crying in the Rain" was A-ha's last single to go top 40 on a Billboard chart in the U.S. to date, peaking at #26 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart during the week ending April 6, 1991.

It was more popular internationally, topping the charts in the band's native Norway, and peaking at #13 in the UK Singles Chart, where the band had found previous success as well.

It was the 32nd most successful song of the year 2010 in Romanian Top 100, although it peaked outside the top 20.

The lyrics:

I'll never let you see

The way my broken heart is hurting me

I've got my pride and I know how to hide

All the sorrow and pain

I'll do my crying in the rain

If I wait for cloudy skies

You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes

You'll never know that I still love you

So though the heartaches remain

I'll do my crying in the rain

Raindrops falling from heaven

Will never wash away my misery

But since we're not together

I'll wait for stormy weather

To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

Someday when my crying's done

I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun

I may be a fool

But till then, darling, you'll never see me complain

I'll do my crying in the rain

I'll do my crying in the rain

I'll do my crying in the rain

I'll do my crying in the rain