Released: January 7, 1980
Songwriter: Rupert Holmes
Producer: Jim Boyer Rupert Holmes
[Verse 1]
Over by the window
There's a pack of cigarettes
Not my brand, you understand
Sometimes the girl forgets
She forgets to hide them
I know who left those smokes behind
She'll say, "Oh, he's just a friend"
And I'll say, "Oh, I'm not blind" to
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him
[Verse 2]
Don't know what he looks like
Don't know who he is
Don't know why she thought that I
Would say "What's mine is his"
I don't want to own her
But I can't let her have it both ways
Three is one too many of us
She leaves with me or stays with
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him
[Verse 3]
If she wants him, she can have him
Just exactly how we once were
It's goodbye to he and I
And back to me and her without
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
Time for me to make the girl see
It's me or it's him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
Time for me to make the girl see
It's me or it's him
Over by the window
There's a pack of cigarettes
Not my brand, you understand
Sometimes the girl forgets
She forgets to hide them
I know who left those smokes behind
She'll say, "Oh, he's just a friend"
And I'll say, "Oh, I'm not blind" to
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him
[Verse 2]
Don't know what he looks like
Don't know who he is
Don't know why she thought that I
Would say "What's mine is his"
I don't want to own her
But I can't let her have it both ways
Three is one too many of us
She leaves with me or stays with
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him
[Verse 3]
If she wants him, she can have him
Just exactly how we once were
It's goodbye to he and I
And back to me and her without
[Chorus]
Him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
Time for me to make the girl see
It's me or it's him, him, him
What's she gonna do about him?
She's gonna have to do without him
Or do without me, me, me
No one gets to get it for free
Time for me to make the girl see
It's me or it's him
more tracks from the album
The Best of Soft Rock: Ride Like the Wind
- You’re So Vain
- Ride Like the Wind
- Making Love Out of Nothing at All
- Sailing
- Ooh Baby Baby
- Him
- How Much I Feel
- Saturday in the Park
- Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
- One More Night
- The Living Years
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- If You Leave Me Now
- Blinded by the Light
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- It Might Be You
From the albums
- The Best of Soft Rock: Ride Like the Wind
- Sound Express (1979)
- Jukebox Explosion (1979)
- Partners in Crime (1979)
- New York Collection 1980 (1980)
- Woman In Love (1980)
- Super 20 - Pop Non Stop (1980)
- The Best Of Rupert Holmes (2006)
- Throwback Tunes: 1980 (2018)
Rupert Holmes popular songs
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
- Terminal
- Nearsighted
- The Mask
- Loved by the One You Love
- Blackjack
- Adventure
- The People That You Never Get to Love
- In You I Trust
- Weekend Lover
- Bagdad
- The O’Brien Girl
- Him (single edit)
- Annabella
- Special Thanks
- Cold
- Soap Opera
- Let’s Get Crazy Tonight
- Him
- Less Is More
- Drop It
- I Don’t Want to Hold Your Hand
- Perfect
- Crowd Pleaser