Album: Super Trouper (1980)

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• 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 (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Smiling, having fun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Feeling like a number one
  Tonight the super trouper beams are gonna blind me
  But I won't feel blue (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Like I always do (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  '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 (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Smiling, having fun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Feeling like a number one
  Tonight the super trouper beams are gonna blind me
  But I won't feel blue (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Like I always do (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  '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 (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Smiling, having fun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Feeling like a number one
  Tonight the super trouper beams are gonna blind me
  But I won't feel blue (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Like I always do (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you
  
  (Sup-p-per troup-p-per) lights are gonna find me
  Shining like the sun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Smiling, having fun (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Feeling like a number one
  
  (Sup-p-per troup-p-per) beams are gonna blind me
  But I won't feel blue (sup-p-per troup-p-per)
  Like I always do (sup-p-per troup-p-per) Writer/s: Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K Ulvaeus
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Olik Valera from Asunción, ParaguayGlasgow was the penultimate stop on Abba's 1979 tour, which continued until mid-1980. It also held sentimental significance for Björn and Agnetha, despite their impending divorce in July 1980. The song is believed to be a message from Björn to his future wife, Lena Källersjö, and was recorded for the Super Trouper album released on November 3, 1980. It's hard to imagine the emotional challenge of rehearsing and performing the song for Björn and Agnetha, given the personal meaning and context behind the lyrics. Björn remarried in January 1981.
• Peter Beninger from Nantes FranceOf course this was perhaps the greatest pop group of all time. But what I will never understand is how Benny and Bjorn could leave these two incredible women!
• Daniel Miller from Houston, TxI swear I hear Frida singing, "ABBA the success that never ends" rather than "part of a success that never ends." Listen to it in headphones.
  This is another example of ABBA's deeply personal, bittersweet lyrics that many people missed---back in the day, as it were. The counter-lyric in the second verse, where Agnetha sings "You'll soon be changing everything" is probably a reference to the group's breakup, which, while never officially announced, was virtually in place by the time this album was released in November of 1980.
• Sioraf from Macroon, IrelandI thought they meant super trooper as in some elite soldier. I wasn't alive during that era you see.
• Scott from Halifax, NsMany people have assumed that "Super Trouper" was written for Agnetha Faltskog, who hated being away from her children on tour and who developed a fear of flying as well. But Bjorn Ulvaeus has admitted in recent interviews that he wrote the song about himself after his divorce from Agnetha. The subject of the song was his longing for his new girlfriend and his excitement on learning she was going to fly to meet him on tour.
• Joe from New York, NyMy favorte song of all time. Only AbbA could make so many songs and each song was betetr than the other. I go every year to see ABBA perform which are 4 musicians who look like the group. Great fun
• Jason from Dublin, Irelandi believe that what abba are trying to convey with this song is how difficult stardom can be and also how people can misunderstand and think stars lives are perfect.'facing twenty thousand of your fans how can anyone be so lonely part of a success that never ends'. they don't realise that even famous and succesful people can get down

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