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A-Ha – Stay On These Roads Lyrics 9 years ago
@[freeking24:9564] Forgot to mention the part of the lyrics that isn't presented:

"Winter's callin on my home" ---- death is calling his spouse; she is dying on their home.

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A-Ha – Stay On These Roads Lyrics 9 years ago
This is a beautiful song indeed. And a sad one [like most beautiful ones tend to be].
I interpret it as being an old man watching his loved one [spouse] dying, and here's why:

"The cold has a voice / It talks to me" -- he feels her body getting colder, it is she who is speaking her last words to him.

"Stillborn by choice / It airs no need to hold" ---- I believe this is about the inevitability of death; or better yet, the frailty of life it self.

"Old man feels the cold / Oh baby don't / 'cause I've been told" ---- the old man feels her getting colder and colder and begs her to stay because she said the following words to him before:

"Stay on these roads
We shall meet, I know
Stay on my love
We shall meet, I know
I know" ------ she wants him to keep on living and not to worry about her cause she believes they will meet again in another life.

"Where joy should reign / These skies restrain ------ the joy of living with her is taken away by heavenly fate.
"Shadow your love" ------ her words to him; she recognizes her death brings him sadness.
The voice trails off again ---- she feigns again from weakness after her words

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" ---- and these words are his to her. He feels she is getting weaker and begs her to be strong just for a little while more and stay; assuring her that he wants to believe they will meet again just like she said they would.

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