Lyric discussion by enlightenme3 

Cover art for The Day Before You Came lyrics by ABBA

A sad song.

I think it is about a woman who has fallen in love with someone but for reasons unknown they are no longer together.

She has experienced the feelings of love and is now reflecting that before she met him she hadnt even realised she was just going through the motions with no real aim to her life but having experienced love she now knows how her life changed for the better. Also her reference to the rain as if it is a depressing medium which she never experienced whilst he was around, he lifted her spirits, she must have felt miserable when it rained before she met him but not when he was around, nothing mattered.

Now he is no longer around she reflects on her life and she feels sad that having experienced love she now can see the mundane reality she had been living.

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