Lifelines (song)

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“Lifelines”
“Lifelines” cover
Single by a-ha
from the album Lifelines
Released 8 July 2002
Format CD
Recorded 2002
Genre Synthpop
New Wave
Length 3:59
Label WEA Records
Writer(s) Magne Furuholmen
Producer Martin Landquist, Stephen Hague
a-ha singles chronology
Forever Not Yours
(2002)
Lifelines
(2002)
Did Anyone Approach You?
(2002)

"Lifelines" was the second single and the title track from a-ha's 2002 album, Lifelines.

[edit] Track listing

The UK release comes in a regular CD-single jewel-case.

[edit] Music video

This video is based on the Norwegian short film A Year Along the Abandoned Road, directed by Morten Skallerud in 1991. Time lapse photography was used to make the video, 50 000 times the normal speed; the original film was 12 minutes long and was filmed over 105 days, and edited to fit the song length and scenes with the band members.

The subject of the short film was Børfjord, a semi-deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway.

The opening sequense features a poem written by King Olav V of Norway:

When I look back
I see the landscape
That I have walked through
But it is different


All the great trees are gone
It seems there are
Remnants of them


But it is the afterglow
Inside of you


Of all those you met
Who meant something in your life


Olav Rex
August 1977