"It Seems To Hang On" is a song written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Ashford & Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011 and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).
Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York City. Afterwards, his family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he became a member of Christ Temple Baptist Church. While there, he sang with a group called the Hammond Singers (named after the founding minister, James Hammond). Later, Nickolas attended and graduated from Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, before pursuing his professional career, where he would ultimately meet his wife, Valerie. They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1964. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined an aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Joshie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label, where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step at a Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs, "Let's Go Get Stoned," gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year, Ashford & Simpson joined Motown, where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need To Get By," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)." Ashford and Simpson wrote many other hit songs, including Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" (1978) and Teddy Pendergrass's "Is It Still Good to You?"
Is it daylight, I can't tell no more
Never had this condition before
Everywhere I turn (It seems to hang on)
Everything I do (It seems to hang on)
Was I mistaken (It seems to hang on)
About you (It seems to hang on)
Aside from wantin' you (It seems to hang on)
Aside from needin' you (It seems to hang on)
Let me give you some idea (It seems to hang on)
It ain't just the tears, the fact of it is
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why
(It seems to hang on) Oh, ooh, why
(It seems to hang on)
Wasn't I clever
As only I can be
But tell me what's happenin'
What's botherin' me, yeah, yeah
Aside from dreams I had
Nothin' else exists
Honey, it's you I miss
Don't leave me like this
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why
(It seems to hang on) Why
(It seems to hang on)
Like a snowball rollin' down the hill (It seems to hang on)
I look behind me, it's there still (It seems to hang on)
Ooh, like a shadow it follows
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, loose me, loose me, loose me please
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on) I can't shake it
(It seems to hang on) I can't shake it
(It seems to hang on)
Like a snowball rollin' down the hill (It seems to hang on)
I look behind me, it's there still (It seems to hang on)
Ooh, it follows like a shadow
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, loose me, loose me, loose me please, please
Please
{Hey} Hey
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why, why
(It seems to hang on) {Oh, oh} Why
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(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on) {Was it} Was it
(It seems to hang on) {Was it} Was it
(It seems to hang on) {Baby, was it love}
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on) {I wanna know}
(It seems to hang on) I wanna know
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