Are You Still Singing and Dancing to That Old Codependent Top 10 Hit Song?
“You’re giving me a song and a dance, a tale of romance, But haven’t I heard those words before? You’re telling me you’re gonna be true, but I shouldn’t listen to you For hasn’t my heart been fooled before? Oh, you’re giving me a song and a dance, and I’m falling for your romance But haven’t I heard those words before? You’re Giving Me a Song and a Dance , Marty Symes You’re Giving Me a Song and a Dance was a song made popular by the orchestras of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman back in the 1930s. Peg La Centra sang the lyric for Shaw and Helen Ward sang it for Goodman. Every time I hear this song, it reminds me of the Codependent Trap. What’s the Codependent Trap? It’s when we engage in the dysfunctional, codependent Song and Dance that others spin for us and we spin for ourselves. It’s about the “song” with the codependent words that play through our heads; that old “song” of neediness. We known how it goes. We sing it to ourselves all of the time. It’s all abo...