In A-Ha’s song “Hunting High & Low”, the premise from pretty much the start of the song is that she’s gone and he’s hunting high and low for her. The song goes in that way until quite late in the piece where we hear the line “And now she’s telling me she’s got to go away”. What doesn’t sit right is that surely he already knows that she’s gone away or else he wouldn’t be hunting high and low. How can she just be telling him “now”? It always grates to hear this.
Then having been told “now” that she’s got to go away, the lyrics have him resuming the hunting high and low. I guess it’s possible she was able to get the message to him that she’s got to go away without giving him any contact details. However, it seems far more likely that, in the course of comunicating that message to him, she would have given him the means of contacting her in which case surely he would have no need to continue hunting high and low for her.
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