<Li> "The Way Old Friends Do" </Li> <P> "The Winner Takes It All" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA . Released as the first single from the group's Super Trouper album on 21 July 1980, it is a ballad in the key of F - sharp major, reflecting the end of a romance . The single's B - side was the non-album track "Elaine". </P> <P> "The Winner Takes It All" - which had the original demonstration title "The Story of My Life" - was written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal . </P> <P> Ulvaeus denies the song is about his and Fältskog's divorce, saying the basis of the song "is the experience of a divorce, but it's fiction .' Cause one thing I can say is that there wasn't a winner or a loser in our case . A lot of people think it's straight out of reality, but it's not". American critic Chuck Klosterman, who says "The Winner Takes It All" is "(the only) pop song that examines the self - aware guilt one feels when talking to a person who has humanely obliterated your heart" finds Ulvaeus' denial hard to believe in light of the original title . And the booklet for the double CD compliation The Definitive Collection states "' The Winner Takes It All' is the song where Bjorn admits that the sad experience of his and Agnetha's divorce the previous year left its mark on the lyrics ." </P>

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