(Originally performed by Abba: The Day Before You Came)nnMust have left my house at eight, because i always donnMy train, i'm certain, left the station just when it was duennI must have read the morning paper going into townnnAnd having gotten through the editorial, no doubt i must have frownednnI must have made my desk around a quarter after ninennWith letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signednnI must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or sonnThe usual place, the usual bunchnnAnd still on top of this i'm pretty sure it must have rainednnnThe day before you camennnnI must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past twonnAnd at the time i never even noticed i was bluennI must have kept on dragging through the business of the daynnWithout really knowing anything, i hid a part of me awaynnAt five i must have left, there's no exception to the rulennA matter of routine, i've done it ever since i finished schoolnnThe train back home againnnUndoubtedly i must have read the evening paper thennnOh yes, i'm sure my life was well within it's usual framennThe day before you camennnnnMust have opened my front door at eight o'clock or sonnAnd stopped along the way to buy some chinese food to gonnI'm sure i had my dinner watching something on tvnnThere's not, i think, a single episode of dallas that i didn't seennI must have gone to bed around a quarter after tennnI need a lot of sleep, and so i like to be in bed by then i must have read a whilennThe latest one by marilyn french or something in that stylennIt's funny, but i had no sense of living without aimnnThe day before you camennnnAnd turning out the lightnnI must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another nightnnAnd rattling on the roof i must have heard the sound of rainnnThe day before you came