Set me free, why don’t you, babe?
Keep me hangin’ on
Set my 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 hangin’ on
Set me free, why don’t you, babe?
Get out my life, why don’t you, babe? (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
‘Cause you don’t really need me
You kust keep me hangin’ on
Why do you keep a-comin’ around playin’ 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, yeah, yeah
Set me free, why don’t you, babe?
Get out my life, why don’t you, babe? (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
‘Cause you don’t really love me
You just keep me hangin’ on
No, you don’t really need me
You just keep me hangin’ on
You say although we broke up
You still just wanna be friends
But how can we still be friends
When seeing you only breaks my heart again?
Whoa-whoa-whoa
Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa (and there ain’t nothing I can do about it)
Whoa-whoa-whoa
Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa (when darkness has gone by tomorrow)
Hey, yeah
Get out, get out of my life
And let me sleep at night
‘Cause you don’t really love me
You just keep me (hangin’ on) hangin’ on
You say you still care for me
But your heart and soul needs to be free
And now that you’ve got your freedom
You wanna still hold on to me, yeah, yeah
You don’t want me for yourself
So let me find somebody else
Why don’t you be a man about it?
Set me free (ooh-ooh-ooh)
No, you don’t care a thing about me
You’re just usin’ me, hey, abusin’ me
Get out, get out of my life
And let me sleep at night (ooh-ooh-ooh)
‘Cause you don’t really love me
You just keep me hangin’ on, hangin’ on
Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer. She first gained success in 1981 with her debut single “Kids in America”, which peaked at no. 2 in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist. In 1986, she had a UK no. 2 hit with a reworked version of the Supremes’ song “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”, which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles that charted within the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. Her other hits include “Chequered Love” (1981), “You Came” (1988) and “Never Trust a Stranger” (1988). In 2003, she collaborated with Nena on the song “Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime”, which topped the Dutch and Austrian charts.
She holds the record for being the most-charted British female solo act of the 1980s, with seventeen UK Top 40 hit singles. Starting in 1998, while still active in music, she has branched into an alternative career as a landscape gardener, which has included presenting gardening shows on the BBC and Channel 4. In 2005, she won a Gold award for her courtyard garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show.