What Have You Done For Me Lately

Album: Control (1986)
Charted: 3 4
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  • Used to be a time when you would pamper me
    Used to brag about it all the time
    Your friends seem to think that you're so peachy-keen
    But my friends say neglect is on your mind
    Who's right?

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    Used to go to dinner almost every night
    Danced until I thought I'd lose my breath
    Now it seems your dancin' feet are always on my couch
    Good thing I cook or else we'd starve to death
    Ain't that a shame?

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    I never ask for more than I deserve
    You know it's the truth
    You seem to think you're God's gift to this Earth
    I'm tellin' you, no way
    You ought to be thankful for the little things
    But little things are all you seem to give
    You're always puttin' off what we could do today
    Soap opera says you've got one life to live
    Who's right, who's wrong?

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
    What have you done for me lately?
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah

    This is wild (what have you done for me lately?)
    I swear Writer/s: James Harris III, Terry Lewis
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1986 {April 19th} Janet Jackson performed "What Have You Done for Me Lately" on Dick Clark's ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at position #7 on Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart, four weeks earlier it had peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and it spent twenty weeks on the Top 100...
    And it reached #4 on Billboard's Top 100 chart and #2* {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart...
    Between 1982 and 2018 the Gary, Indiana native had thirty-five records on the Top 100 chart, twenty-four made the Top 10 with ten reaching #1...
    Janet Damita Jo Jackson will celebrate her 53rd birthday next month on May 16th, 2019...
    * For the two weeks that "What Have You Done for Me Lately" was at #2 on the Hot Dance Songs chart, it was kept out of the top spot by "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz and "Kiss (Remix)/Love or Money" by Prince...
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