Released: February 9, 1993
Songwriter: Bill Withers
Producer: Mick Jagger Rick Rubin
[Verse 1]
My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
Uh-huh, but my answer about all that "use me" stuff
I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
[Chorus]
You can keep on using me (Keep on using me)
Until you use me up
Until you use me up
[Verse 2]
My brother sit me right down and he talked to me (What did he say?)
He told me that I ought to not let you just walk on me
Well I'm sure that he meant well, yeah, but when that talk was through
I said, "Brother, if you only knew, you'd wish you were in my shoes"
[Chorus]
You could keep on using me (Keep on using me)
Until you use me up
Yeah baby, until you use me up, hey, hey
[Verse 3]
Oh, sometimes (sometimes) it's true you really do abuse me
Oh, you get me in a crowd of high-class people
And you act real nasty to me
I said, baby, baby, baby, baby, when you love me, I can't get enough
I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
[Chorus]
You can keep on using me (Keep on using me)
Until you use me up
Yeah, baby, until you use me up, now baby
Until you use me up
[Ad libs]
Who's using who?
Who's abusing who?
My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
Uh-huh, but my answer about all that "use me" stuff
I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
[Chorus]
You can keep on using me (Keep on using me)
Until you use me up
Until you use me up
[Verse 2]
My brother sit me right down and he talked to me (What did he say?)
He told me that I ought to not let you just walk on me
Well I'm sure that he meant well, yeah, but when that talk was through
I said, "Brother, if you only knew, you'd wish you were in my shoes"
[Chorus]
You could keep on using me (Keep on using me)
Until you use me up
Yeah baby, until you use me up, hey, hey
[Verse 3]
Oh, sometimes (sometimes) it's true you really do abuse me
Oh, you get me in a crowd of high-class people
And you act real nasty to me
I said, baby, baby, baby, baby, when you love me, I can't get enough
I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
[Chorus]
You can keep on using me (Keep on using me)
Until you use me up
Yeah, baby, until you use me up, now baby
Until you use me up
[Ad libs]
Who's using who?
Who's abusing who?
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