"Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)" is the seventh single by British soul band Loose Ends from their second studio album, So Where Are You?, and was released in February 1985 by Virgin Records.

In the group's native UK, the single made the top twenty.

[2] This made Loose Ends the first British band ever to top that chart [3] It also reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100.

3” CD Single: released 1989 "Hangin' on a String [Contemplating]" was remixed and re-released in 1992.

This was a track taken from the forthcoming Loose Ends Remix project "Tighten Up Volume 1".