Use Me

Use Me is a Bill Withers recording from his 1972 album Still Bill. The song sets a conflicted account of a relationship against one of his most tightly repeating grooves.

The arrangement keeps circling around a short keyboard figure and an insistent rhythm section. Withers’s vocal works against that repetition, changing its emphasis and intensity as the argument develops rather than relying on a large change in the backing.

This is the original studio version. Explore more Bill Withers for the contrast between this clipped funk rhythm and the open, communal feel of Lean on Me.