ABBA Songs - The Piper Lyrics

ABBA - The Piper

ABBA - The Piper Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Super Trouper
Released: 1980

The Piper Lyrics

They came from the hills
And they came from the valleys and the plains
They struggled in the cold
In the heat and the snow and in the rain
Came to hear him play
Play their minds away

We're all following a strange melody
We're all summoned by a tune
We're following The Piper
And we dance beneath the moon
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon for him
And we dance beneath the moon
Sub luna saltamus

They came from the south
From the west and the north and from the east
They waited for the man
Like a parish is waiting for the priest
Longed to hear him play
Play their minds away

We're all following a strange melody
We're all summoned by a tune
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon for him
And we dance beneath the moon
Sub luna saltamus

He gave them a dream
He seduced everybody in the land
The fire in his eyes
And the fear was a weapon in his hand
So they let him play
Play their minds away

We're all following a strange melody
We're all summoned by a tune
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon
We're following the piper
And we dance beneath the moon for him
And we dance beneath the moon

And we dance beneath the moon

Writer/s: BENNY GORAN BROR ANDERSSON, BJOERN K. ULVAEUS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The Piper

This was inspired by the Stephen King novel The Stand. The lyrics are about the rise of a fascist dictator. Bjorn says, "The lyrics deal with the fear that there will come a time when people will want such a leader again."