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You’re Taking Up Another Man’s PlaceAretha Franklin

Songwriter: Isaac Hayes David Porter

Producer: Tom Dowd Arif Mardin Jerry Wexler

[Verse 1]
You don't want me
And you don't want nobody else to want me
What kind of man, what kind of man are you?
You don't need me
And you don't want nobody else to need me
What kind of thing are you trying to send me through?

[Chorus]
Now if you're not gonna take care of business
Then you ought to stop taking up space
Because you're just taking up, that's all you're doing
You're just taking up another man's place

[Verse 2]
Oh, baby, you don't even, you don't even
Want me to go to the store alone
What kind of man, what manner of man are you?
You run over me
You run right over me trying to answer the telephone
Tell me what kind of thing
What kind of thing do you think you're going to put me through?

[Chorus]
You keep me wanting
You keep me wanting the one thing you never gave
Well, right here now, you can stop taking up another man's space

[Bridge]
Baby, I've been faithful
And you know I've been true
But if you're not gonna love me
Tell me what do you expect me to do

[Outro]
Oh, if you're not gonna love me, baby
And you know I need, I need, I need somebody to love me
Then you just ought to stop taking up another man's space
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby
If you're gonna leave me
If you know you're really gonna leave me, baby
Don't you know that you ought to
You just ought to stop taking up another man's place
You know I need somebody right now

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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