Get out my life, why don’t ya babe?

“Cause you don’t really love me, you just keep me hangin’ on”

Every now and then you find a song that fits in perfectly with how you feel. I have had several songs in the last year that have crept up on me with reassuring lyrics. A song like that often gives you comfort because you feel that while you may stuck in a misery that won’t fade, you’re not alone. At least one more person in the entire world feels the same about someone else. It is the strangest sensastion. The lyrics are so close to home that they weigh down your heart, but a smile comes with the tears, because you have some new way of releasing these emotions: blasting the song as loud as you can, and sing it at the top of your voice. There is very little like it.

Yesterday, a friend and I why were rooting through some of the songs we used to sing together when we were children. Some of them really hit home with us, mainly because we had been going around singing songs that we really didn’t understand at the time.One of the songs that really moved me was Kim Wilde’s version on “You keep me hanging on”. Word for word this song spells out what I have been going through recently. If you cast your mind, or your eyes, back to previous posts, you will recall my hopelessly dramatic “get out of my life” to the one that got away. I say the one that got away, but he keeps turning up everywhere. Almost everybody has had that person you need to get over but can’t, because they keep showing up. It has been destroying my sleep, my mental well being, and seeing as how my wishes were ignore, I find it exhausting. Basically I can’t move on knowing I could see him anytime. And he knows that too. I hang on to every shred of hope that maybehe hasn’t gotten away. It’s just taking time for him to realise that we are perfect for each other.  I may as well let the lyrics speak for themselves. Enjoy the video, if it makes you feel as old as it made me feel, I am sorry!

Set me free, why don't you babe?
get out my life, why don't you babe?
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on
Set me free, why don't you babe?
get out my life, why don't you babe?
'cause you don't really need me
but you keep me hanging on
Why do you keep a-comin' around
playing with my heart
why don't you get out of my life
and let me make a brand new start
let me get over you
the way you've gotten over me, yeah
Set me free, why don't you babe?
get out my life, why don't you babe?
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on
now you don't really need me
you just keep me hanging on
You say although we broke
you still just wanna be friends
but how can we still be friends
when seeing you only breaks my heart again
and there ain't nothing I can do about it...
Get out, get out of my life
and let me sleep at night
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on
You say you still care for me
but your heart and soul needs to be free
now that you've got your freedom
you wanna still hold on to me
you don't want me for yourself
so let me find somebody else
Why don't you be a man about it and set me free
now you don't care a thing about me
you're just using me
get out, get out of my life
and let me sleep at night
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on
'Cause you don't really need me
you just keep me hanging on

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