Lyrics to
You Keep Me Hangin’ On

This version of You Keep Me Hangin’ On was released by Rod Stewart in 1977.

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Set me free why don’t you baby
Get out of my life why don’t you baby
You really don’t want me
You just keep me hanging on
You really don’t need me
You just keep me hanging on

Why do you keep coming around
playing with my heart
Why don’t you get out of my life
and help me to make a new start
Let me get over you
the way you got over me

Set me free why don’t you baby
Get out of my life why don’t you baby
You really don’t want me child
You just keep me hanging on
You never, never, never needed me
You just keep me hanging on

You said when we broke up
you just wanted to be friends
Tell me, how can we still be friends
when seeing you just breaks my heart again
and there ain’t nothing I can do about it

You really don’t need me
You just keep me hanging on
You really don’t need me baby
You just keep me hanging on

Set me free why don’t you baby
Set me free why don’t you baby
Get out of my life why don’t you honey
You just keep me hanging on

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About Lyrics and You Keep Me Hangin’ On by Rod Stewart

The lyrics for You Keep Me Hangin’ On are defined as the words making up the song released by Rod Stewart in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to You Keep Me Hangin’ On have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Rod Stewart and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to You Keep Me Hangin’ On by Rod Stewart if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to You Keep Me Hangin’ On" means the words set to the music of You Keep Me Hangin’ On, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rod Stewart. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to You Keep Me Hangin’ On and the lyrics to You Keep Me Hangin’ On are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rod Stewart who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Keep Me Hangin’ On, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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