The Human League - Life On Your Own 

I am working in central London, as a key worker during the coronavirus crisis. I think of this song every day, while walking through a deserted city.

Back in 89. Driving with all my mates in the back of my van. 2 huge speakers. Bashing out these tunes. 50 now. Jeeeez

Fantastic song from Sheffields finest. I'm 55 now and still love it. I'm remembering the good old days. My time is coming to end thanks to cancer 😢 But I still have my music.

Am nearly 58. I haven't heard this gem in a long time. The lyrics resonate with me more than ever before. When I look back I spent more time in relationships wishing I was single than being single wishing I was in a relationship.

I love how the stadium he enters near the end was the old White City Stadium in London, just months before its demolition. Lot of sporting and musical history there!

The band played Blackburn's football ground last summer, I'm 66 and I think Phi and the girls are similar, what legends!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😁😃😊😂🙂

I’m 64, but I’ve loved this song since I first heard it, all those years ago….

The Human League's most underrated single for me. It's completely synth pop genius. I always could have seen New Order doing this track for some reason but without the warmth of The Human League's vocals. Bow Down ++++++ I also relate tot he lyrics so much, the sentiment is perfection. It's been a a favourite of mine since 1984 ****

Ahh, Arding & Hobbs, Clapham Junction. I once worked there for a short period!

I traveled 9 hours on a coach to see bands on an 80's weekend including Human League, boy it was worth it!😁🎸

Phil looks great in this video what a handsome man.

I'm 23 years old and it's great to hear even in these times timeless classics that never die and this one also shows great the times that recently happened during the pandemic Philip Oakey here looks harsh and it all looks great in the spirit of 80 years and a new wave😎🌟🔊🎧🎵🎶

What a song

The lyrics to Liouse are magnificent, such a sweet gem of a song. I loved - no adored - the eighties. I'm 57 now but God the songs bring back so many great memories. Many nights just listening to Date and Penhthouse and Pavement.

Such an underrated song

Absolute jem of a song. Human League were superb and some of the lyrics are great. " Up here the summers shorter and winters very cold I'm looking forward to the life my lonely life will hold " wow

ESTO SUENA A OCHENTAS, TENIA 16 AÑOS CUANDO LAS RADIOS EN LIMA, PERU TOCABAN ESTE TEMA, AHORA CON 52 AÑOS RECUERDO CON NOSTALGIA AQUELLAS EPOCAS, MUSICA, DISCOTECA, BAILE, LOS AMIGOS...............................................

What a belter,great memories...

Sitting in the car waiting on a friend, I started singing the lyrics quietly to myself.Why do specific songs from my younger years make me so filled with emotion that I want to cry.All the memories of past relationships that broke down hurt so much.I look back at a past so full of regret.And I stop to wonder why are we trully here..why? As Ive grown older I find myself stuck with no answer.There must be more to life than...

It was a hit in the UK singles charts in Summer '84 or thereabouts! ☺️

I am a female born in 1980 from Finland.I love The Human League.Especially Philip Oakey.

Simple but extremely deep lyrics, so romantic song, I really love it, top 80s group.

Lyrics Winter is approaching There's snow upon the ground It's good of you to visit me I'm glad you came around I don't know how you found me I didn't let you know I only moved to this address About a week ago I guess you think I ran out But that's not true Other people settle down I never do I always have to move on Just have to go I've often wondered why that is I'd like to say but I just don't know I guess you always wanted Life on your own I guess you always wanted Life on your own Up here the summer's shorter And winter's very cold I'm looking forward to the peace My lonely life will hold I'm really glad you came here Thank you for the talk It's funny how my problem stopped When we went for a walk Standing here together Means so much I won't forget your confidence I won't forget your touch You know I'll come to see you Passing through We'll always be a world apart I'll travel on but I will be true I guess you always wanted Life on your own I guess you always wanted Life on your own I guess you always wanted Life on your own I guess you always wanted Life on your own

An absolute masterpiece

My favorite Human League song............... greetings of Perú...

Im Sheffield and proud ❤ plus heaven 17

Love this track. Wish they played this on the radio more than the other one they always play. The girls look damn fine in this.

Best years of my life, thanks

love this song so much...love the music and the video...love human league....among the 80's i feel that 1984 was the golden age in music..

Fantastic and timeless!

love this band and the music 80s at its best wish i could go back in time anyone got a time machine .

What a gem 💎 2023 ❤🎉

I am a 41 single man, tried to start some relations in my life, but for one thing or another, I guess I always wanted life on my own... Modern times are not the best for long relations in any case.

Very apt title for the current Corona virus situation..

Love this song ❤️ Thanks a lot for uploading it 🙏🎉

A beautiful, poignant, sad song full of pathos concerning the breakdown of a relationship and the singer's inability to hold on to it. Very telling lyric: "It's funny how my problem stopped, when we went for a walk", and the concluding line about being true, in view of his partner's search to find and recover lost love. Still brings tears to my eyes when I listen to it. An extra verse would have been a real treat, but hey, we can't have it all!

Very great band!

Amo esta canción desde los 80 ...siempre la tarareo, cuanta nostalgia que me da escucharla!

Who agrees that Philip Oakley is the total new waver? One of the best 80s videos, and match perfectly with the lyrics and the feeling of the song. That was art.

This has been my anthem since it came out. Always been a loner. It reminds me of a young man travelling the world.

This why I love Britain

Along with the Lebanon, this is my fave HL song. So much more than a trendy group.Thank you!

That synth bass

Love the human league- part of my teen years- happy times= made me laugh seeing the price of a shirt 8.99 in the background- God I'm old lol

Phil Oakey; an enigma of Sheffield

❤❤❤❤ PHILLIP!!!!! MY LOVER

1 of classic hit for human league in 1984.

Great to see this video after all these years 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

White City Stadium ......... iconic !!!!

great 80's song

Great to see some pics of the much-missed White City Stadium, even if it was becoming quite dilapidated by that stage.

A big hit from 1984 in the UK singles charts.

Lovely song

2020, and still sounding fine.

30-5-2022..............Still absolutely amazing !!!!

Poignant song. Still love their music and Phil's voice too.

Such a great tune , one hardly played on Radio and Love the video I often wondered what it would be like to be the only human left.

A terrific band !!

I had the 12 inch record of this song in 1984. A great song and such a powerful thought provoking video!!

Opening shot is London Wall, looking east. Only thing still remaining is the building at the end (and a tower now hidden from view). Oh, and the steps he walks up lol.

I love this song from India

It's an absolutely brilliant song❤❤❤

I'm used to life on my own,I don't need a relationship

Grat song. Nice tool belt too 😀

This is such a great video from an era when there were soo many bad videos. The Human League always cared about making quality videos

Now a widower at 59, this mean more than ever.

Lovely song, not dated at all. But the vid shows things, long gone.

Lembro dessa sendo exibida no programa TV sucesso em 1986 na TV Alterosa sob o comando do brilhante apresentador Amir Francisco todos os sábados de meio-dia às 14:00 horas. Não perdia um programa sequer!

The Huma League... especially Phil were so stylish....so ahead of their time

Best Time

On a side note, being an ex London Transport bus driver in the mid 80s, I was interested in the bus. It's been preserved at the Scania museum in Sweden. Still not as good as a Routemaster of course...nothing is.

What a great video

80s BEST BEST decade...new times are not....

Phil looks absolutely gorgeous 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Gives.me.the vibe of the movie silent earth

This is one of their forgotten classics.

Awsome, love it.

Great video! 😮✨

Listen to them all the time. Phil Oakey must be one of the most beautiful people ever created x x

Why, I don't know, but this song moves me to tears. I guess it's the very real pathos expressed in the lyrics about the apparent hopelessness of the man's situation in his supposedly not being capable of holding down a relationship and his attempting to escape from it all, and leaving behind a partner who loves him and wants him back again. He is eventually found by the resourcefulness of said partner and perhaps deep down he realises that he is in denial of his latent ability to have a loving relationship ("It's funny how my problem stopped when we went for a walk"). Yet the final lyrics seem to say that he will not change for the better at all. That is the sad situation that he finds himself in, as I see it. Such a deeply moving song for me, perhaps it echoes periods of extreme loneliness in my life. Who knows? P.S. I just realised that I wrote about this song two years ago and my comment from then is still there. Forgive me for repeating myself. What might you think of what I have just added?

Uno dei gruppi meno compreso per l'epoca ma sono ancora oggi con le loro canzoni il gruppo più innovativo nel panorama dance le loro canzoni sono incredibilmente belle

It's a melancholy song in my opinion.

I have very fond memories of Hysteria. I thought it was underrated due to the pressure and expectations to deliver anothe Dare, which had been a monster commercial and artistic success. I remember there were problems with the recording sessions, and you could feel the synth-pop game had been overplayed by 1984, with credible acts like Yazoo and Soft Cell splitting up and the likes of Howard Jones and Thompson Twins turning it into a bit of a joke. You could hear the knives sharpening before it was even released.

Great song!!! And much better that way ,away from people !😅🎉

I love this song . I love human league

This was filmed where my wife & I work! The bus and street scene is London Wall and Phil smashes the window in Leadenhall market in the City Of London (they filmed Harry Potter there too!).

I WISH, I WISH, I sooo WISH The Human League would put Life On Your Own in their live set. It's simply incredible, the singles from Hysteria were simply stunning. If New Order released this track in 1984 it would have been seen as a classic. But we all know The Human League are better, Life On Your Own is a CLASSIC. I adore the lyrics and relate to the whole structure of the track. Synth Pop Deep classic xxxxxxx

2023 y suena bien.

love this song

One of best groups from the 80s I can’t recall the name of the film this features!

In '88 we divorced,my love of my life back then,and I.I remember playing this song time and time again after that,and 'Louise'.I didn't like those NewWave bands of the early eighties that much,because I grew up in the sixties and seventies.But nevertheless the Human League became thus a part of my life.I'm still moved everytime I hear this song.Great.

I always felt that the Human League's massive success with the 'Dare' album in 1981 badly cruelled them in terms of their next album's success. The natural rush to follow 'Dare' up with more product yielded some terrific stand out singles in 82-83, some fine B-sides plus a good reissue of an earlier song. When the 'Hysteria' album was finally released in 1984, it contained some excellent songs, but the album as a whole was not a patch on 'Dare'. It lacked depth and unsurprisingly, it enjoyed far less overall success. Imagine for a minute what MIGHT have emerged if the League, after 'Dare', had held out, then released 'Hysteria' in 1984 with all the post-'Dare' singles & superior B-sides replacing the weaker "Hysteria' album tracks. This is my view of what 'Hysteria' could have looked like, song by song......1. Mirror Man, 2. You Remind Me Of Gold, 3. I love you too much, 4. (Keep Feeling) Fascination, 5. The Lebanon, 6. Life on Your Own, 7. Louise, 8. Betrayed, 9 The World Tonight, 10. Being Boiled (reissue). All this is great post-1981 material which would have made a ripping follow up album, with success rivalling that of 'Dare'. What do you think?

WE were happy in the 80s i miss those Years and the good music ah

😍 Phill 😍

Love this tune 🎤😁🕺🕺🕺🕺

Killer baseline. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

From Sheffield to the world

Phil Oakey would look cool emptying his bins

That bus is preserved by Scania in Sweden, it was London's first Scania MCW

Great song from a great album HYSTERIA!