“If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” – Sting
Free, free, set them free
Free, free, set them free
Free, free, set them free
If you need somebody
Call my name
If you want someone
You can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don’t even think about me
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone, set them free
Set them free
Set them free
Set them free
If it’s a mirror you want
Just look into my eyes
Or a whipping boy
Someone to despise
Or a prisoner in the dark
Tied up in chains you just can’t see
Or a beast in a gilded cage
That’s all some people ever want to be
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone, set them free
Set them free
Set them free
Set them free
You can’t control an independent heart
Can’t tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned to believe that we can’t live
We can’t live here and be happy with less
So many riches
So many souls
With everything we see that we want to possess
If you need somebody
Call my name
If you want someone
You can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
You want to hold onto your possession
Don’t even think about me
If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone, set them free
Set them free
Set them free
Set them free
Set them free
How many people are stuck in a relationship because they are needed? Because they don’t want to hurt someone by leaving?
“If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don’t even think about me”
So much of “love” seems to be about need. About the relationship with the other person filling some gap.
“You can’t control an independent heart
Can’t tear the one you love apart
Forever conditioned to believe that we can’t live
We can’t live here and be happy with less
So many riches
So many souls
With everything we see that we want to possess”
How many of us have the guts to really test our love? Real love, the type turns everything about someone else into butterfly-inducing moments? How many of us have the strength to let that go?
“If you love somebody
If you love someone
If you love somebody
If you love someone, set them free
Set them free
Set them free
Set them free”
Watching someone walk away as you let them go is one of the hardest things in the world. Having the guts to set someone free – hoping they might come back but knowing they might not – is perhaps the ultimate test of how real love is.