Thank you, that really fits and adds to my enjoyment.

The Winner Takes It All is one of my all time favourites, so it's high on the list. Watch this space!

@@aaronwildeofficial have you done it already? I would be very interested too!

Actually that's not quite my reading of the words. To me the song is revealing in the final lines that he has actually left her, that she is alone, just as she was before they met, but that now her life is empty. The whole song then suddenly retrospectively shifts into an ironic memory of how the trivial reminders of solitude she "must have" noticed (and therefore didn't even note at the time) are now the very poignant reminders of emptiness that she didn't know they would become. And that is the lyrical genius of the song in my opinion. The way the exact same experience has become desperate because in between times she had him for a while. So in the beginning of the song we feel like she is singing to someone who is still in her life, but by the end we realise that he isn't. For me this total shift makes it the greatest love song ever written, because we experience the shock of her loss as we realise that actually he has gone. "The emptiness I feel without him, how on earth did I not realise how deep this emptiness was before he came?" The fact that we accompany her on her journey, the song leading us to believe in the beginning that he is still there is a stroke of genius. Then the faltering (Faltskog!) delivery gives us clues that something is not quite right.

@@aaronwildeofficial I don't know if it is from a Bjorn lyric, but I read it the other day in connnection with him; 'Love is just a long goodbye.' This wasn't my favourite ABBA song and then I watched your extraordinary analysis.......

A song that is in *A minor* can be _written_ in *C major.* I think that's what you mean. *A minor* is the related minor of *C major.* I have never seen a written version of the song; I just work from exactly what I hear in the track. I do make small errors sometimes in my analysis, but this isn't one of them. Hope this clarifies why I say the song is in *A minor.* The final word will be with Benny and Bjorn, and they may well have _written_ it in *C major,* but this doesn't change the notes I would be playing.

@@aaronwildeofficial No I mean you say that they key of the song is A minor but it was recorded in C minor.

I do agree. The song, as recorded and as available on the official KZfaq channel, is in C minor. If you think it's not in C minor, you've left your keyboard in transposed mode :-) There are plenty of KZfaq channels playing c minor chords and backing tracks. Search and listen. Then listen to TDBYC. You'll notice they're the same, whatever your synthesiser is telling you :-)

Am E, is alo how benny plays it himself

Whatever key they wrote it in, the recording is in C Minor - with the relative major being Eb major.