Love is like an Itchin: Is it "hide" or "out"?

I need some expert assistance interpreting what is probably my favorite Motown song, Love is Like an Itchin' in My Heart.

For years I thought in the verse below, the word in bold in the lyric was HIDE.

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...I've been bitten by the love bug
and I need some information
to help me, out/hide the situation...

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However, with the superb remastering by the Universal team in the early 2000s, it became obvious, at least in the stereo album version, that the word is OUT. I think I first discovered this on the blue Motown boxed set.

Which is all fine and well until the Expanded Edition of A-Go Go came out. Having closely listened to the various versions, I swear I hear the word HIDE intermittently throughout but clearly at the end [[5m:16s) of the SupreMix version.

Does anyone else hear the word HIDE instead of OUT, in any version of this song, or am I just crazy [[both is also possible)?

Thanks in advance.

It is "out". If "hide" is heard it could be an alternate? I never noticed that one before. I'll have to listen to the expanded version again. I'm sure someone with much more knowledge will help you out. Interesting observation though and a great song. :)

I've always heard "out" as a short way of saying "outta the situation". But then again, there are those here, I am sure, who were at the recording session and have the definitive answer. :)

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Originally Posted by jobucats

I've always heard "out" as a short way of saying "outta the situation". But then again, there are those here, I am sure, who were at the recording session and have the definitive answer. :)

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I've heard "out the situation" but I swear in the Scratch It and SupreMix, Diana plays with the word "hide".

I’ve never heard hide, only “out ‘da situation”