I often wonder whether I’d be able to solve the Word Up! lyric teasers I give on a Saturday morning if I weren’t the person setting them, but I can confidently say that I definitely wouldn’t have had a clue about this morning’s – well done if you did manage to work it out:

Someone is waiting for me to rise and dive into the ocean. I cried;

And I cried and I cried my baby to sleep, beside myself – my soul to keep.*

Perhaps last week’s was more straightforward:

Anybody who’s ever loved, ya know just what I feel.

Too hard to fake it, nothing can replace it!*

This week’s Word Up! song was Right Beside You by Sophie B Hawkins:

Last week’s was Mary J Blige’s Be Without You: