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My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
But my answer yeah to all that use me stuff
Is I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
My brother sit me right down and he talked to me
He told me that I ought not to let you just walk on me
And I'm sure he meant well yeah but when our talk was through
I said brother if you only knew you'd wish that you were in my shoes
You just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
Oh sometimes yeah it's true you really do abuse me
You get in a crowd of high class people and then you act real rude to me
But oh baby baby baby baby when you love me I can't get enough
I and I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
Talking about you using me but it all depends on what you do
It ain't too bad the way you're using me
Cause I sure am using you to do the things you do
Ah ha to do the things you do
Man.. this song is about being with a woman who treats you like garbage and everyone around is tellin you to get out. But, what they don't know is that the sweetness is so GOOD to you, that it don't matter how she treats you, as long as she keeps lettin you hit it! Great song!!
Man.. this song is about being with a woman who treats you like garbage and everyone around is tellin you to get out. But, what they don't know is that the sweetness is so GOOD to you, that it don't matter how she treats you, as long as she keeps lettin you hit it! Great song!!
Yeah baby. You are right on. Gotta luuuvvvvvvv this one. Says old RamDass!
Yeah baby. You are right on. Gotta luuuvvvvvvv this one. Says old RamDass!
To me it's a song about a guy that is dating a "user" but knows it. He's just making the most of it as it also benefits him in a physical (or emotional) sense. Raw Stylus did a good cover of this in the 90s BTW but nothing can beat the withmeister's version.
About the record industry? I love how people just read between the lines like a tenth grade English teacher, you have no evidence to back this up. Why would Withers call the record industry "baby baby baby baby?" lol. Check it: Huge principle in logic is "Occam's Razor," also known as the "law of economy:" it states: "all things being equal, the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one." IMPORTANT: Simplest not meaning least complex, rather, the one that makes the fewest assumptions and seems to accurately reflect the information available.
Check it: If musicians didnt read between the lines we wouldnt have this kind of music. derrpppp... that being said i would doubt the original intentions of this song were about the record industry.
Check it: If musicians didnt read between the lines we wouldnt have this kind of music. derrpppp... that being said i would doubt the original intentions of this song were about the record industry.
@mikeauryn I concur! Entertainers make money for everybody else and often die broke.
@mikeauryn I concur! Entertainers make money for everybody else and often die broke.
This is about a Man who loves those juices! He don't give a rats butt about how she's treating him in public or what other people see, it just does not matter, but what she does for him OUTWEIGHS it all. LOL! PEACE.
The song can be interpreted multiple ways, but the consistent theme is bilateral use. Person A uses Person B just as Person B is using person A. The last lines of the song make it clear. He clearly doesn't mind being used because he's also using the person to do the "things" they do.
More interesting, just before saying this, he makes note that one needs to be aware as to how they use someone as whether the use is good or bad simply depends.
Though I will say then when I was younger, I saw this song as a very underlined sexual song. In my young male mind, I envisioned a guy being used almost purely as a sexual object for a female, but in public she frequently belittled him for her personal enjoyment. In the guy's mind, he didn't care because he knew what was soon to come. Again, just another case of bilateral using.
The last three lines. The last three lines of the song is what it is about. What a great ending.
Clearly Bill had a big humiliation fetish.. For those of you who don’t know what that is.. erotic humiliation is basically when people get off on (sometimes paying for) consensual humiliation (being disrespect in public, being treated like a slave etc.) in order to be sexually aroused. It’s a whole thing
I heard this song on a GMC commercial the other day. A person will talk to to you and be interested in what you say...untill someone better comes along, then they'll act like you don't exist. This song has a simple vibe that I love, but it's also depressing...this guy in this song's relationship will probably never be out in the open.
It's about Bill's relationship with the record industry. The leeches at the top are getting rich off of Bill's success, and his friends are trying to tell him not to let the record company/industry walk all over him. But Bill's saying, "Man, I'm getting rich off of these guys; let them use me all they want. At least I'm making a lot of money from my hits."
@NorthWriter That makes no sense, if they are using him, he's surely not making any money. He got screwed just like ALL ENTERTAINERS and probably died broke. Entertainment is not a place to make money, being the lawyer or agent of an entertainer is.
@NorthWriter That makes no sense, if they are using him, he's surely not making any money. He got screwed just like ALL ENTERTAINERS and probably died broke. Entertainment is not a place to make money, being the lawyer or agent of an entertainer is.