ABBA tragedy song

I don't wanna talk


About the things we've gone through


Though it's hurting me


Now it's history


I've played all my cards


And that's what you've done too


Nothing more to say


No more ace to play


The winner takes it all


The loser standing small


Beside the victory


That's her destiny


I was in your arms


Thinking I belonged there


I figured it made sense


Building me a fence


Building me a home


Thinking I'd be strong there


But I was a fool


Playing by the rules


The gods may throw a dice


Their minds as cold as ice


And someone way down here


Loses someone dear


The winner takes it all


The loser has to fall


It's simple and it's plain


Why should I complain.


But tell me does she kiss


Like I used to kiss you?


Does it feel the same


When she calls your name?


Somewhere deep inside


You must know I miss you


But what can I say


Rules must be obeyed


The judges will decide


The likes of me abide


Spectators of the show


Always staying low


The game is on again


A lover or a friend


A big thing or a small


The winner takes it all


I don't wanna talk


If it makes you feel sad


And I understand


You've come to shake my hand


I apologize


If it makes you feel bad


Seeing me so tense


No self-confidence


But you see


The winner takes it all


The winner takes it all...

The above mentioned song was recorded by the Swedish Pop group ABBA, and released on July 21, 1980 as the first single from the group. This song was played in my English class by the lecturer and asked us to write about this song. Later on, I found it very interesting one as this song is short, sweet, simple and great. I love the wordings of this song and the lyrics attracted me a lot. I did study about this songs and found out that this song was written in just 2 hours Ulvaeus during his drunken period, one of the member of ABBA group. This song is assumed to mirror the divorce of the group members of ABBA group between Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus.

This song was voted as the “Britain’s favourite ABBA song” in the poll done for Channel Five in 1999 and was voted as “Britain’s favorite Break-up song” in poll done in 2006, again by channel Five. This song was hit and stayed in top chart for most of the countries like Ireland, Netherland, South Africa and also reached in top 10 in United states as well.

This song talks about how relationship breaks up and how the people will feel when relationship breaks up. The winner, some third person who comes between the relations, breaks up the old relationship and takes away the lover. At the end of the song, it shows that the old lover returns but previous lover refuses to accept and says that this is what one feel when some relationship breaks up.

This songs has great melody and voice of Faltskog. Her voice is very melodious in this song. Well dude, I liked this song a lot, I hope you would also like this song if you hear it for one time. Try this out for one time and feel the difference.