You Keep me Hangin On – The Supremes:歌詞及意思
You Keep me Hangin On (1966) – The Supremes
Set me free why don’t you, babe
You Keep me Hangin On (1966) – The Supremes
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
今天為大家介紹You Keep me Hangin On,是由著名美國黑人女子組合The Supremes在1966年推出的單曲,歌曲長達3分15秒(重製版本),屬於Soul靈魂樂類型的音樂,填詞作曲由Holland–Dozier–Holland 負責。歌曲在當時曾經達到榜首的成績。其後,有不少樂隊及歌手翻唱該歌曲,產生不同版本。而翻唱的版本,在音樂排行榜同樣地有不錯的成績,相當有「魔力」的歌曲。題外話,歌曲You Keep me Hangin On 被BBC 列入著名100首摩城電子(Digital)歌曲,更被滾石雜誌列入史上500首最偉大歌曲之一。
在1966年,歌曲為摩城唱片的產物,有指屬於proto-funk及R&B類型。相比起較早之The Supremes組合推出的You Can’t Hurry Love歌曲下,兩首歌曲有互相呼應的關係。歌曲較為矚目的地方在於結他演奏(前奏較明顯)的部份,運用了摩斯密碼的形式與廣播電台的聲音效果有相似(通常被運用在播放新聞前的一段音樂)。
歌詞方面
填詞作曲由Holland–Dozier–Holland 負責
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 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
But you keep me hangin’ 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, baby (ooh-ooh-ooh)
‘Cause you don’t really love me
You just keep me hangin’ on
Now 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?
(And there ain’t nothing I can do about it)
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
You don’t want me for yourself
So let me find somebody else
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
Why don’t you be a man about it?
And set me free (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Now you don’t care a thing about me
You’re just using me, hey, abusing 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 (ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Source from: musixmatch)