||<table align=center><table width=85%><-5><#000000> '''{{{#FFFFFF [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]]의 싱글}}}''' ||
||<width=30%> "[[Midnight Train to Georgia]]"[br](1973) ||<|2><width=5%> → ||<width=30%> '''I've Got to Use My Imagination'''[br](1973) ||<|2><width=5%> → ||<width=30%> "[[Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me]]"[br](1974) ||

||<table align=right><:><-2><bgcolor=#7d7d7c> '''{{{+1 {{{#ffffff I've Got to Use My Imagination}}}}}}''' ||
||<-5><:> [[파일:I've_Got_to_Use_My_Imagination.jpg|width=340]] ||
||<:><width=25%><#7d7d7c> {{{#ffffff '''수록 음반'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> [[Imagination(음반)|Imagination]] ||
||<:><width=25%><#7d7d7c> {{{#ffffff '''아티스트'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> [[Gladys Knight & the Pips]] ||
||<:><width=25%><#7d7d7c> {{{#ffffff '''B-Side'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> "[[I Can See Clearly Now]]" ||
||<:><width=25%><#7d7d7c> {{{#ffffff '''발매일'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> 1973년 11월 ||
||<:><width=25%><#7d7d7c> {{{#ffffff '''녹음'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> 1973년 ||
||<:><#808080> {{{#ffffff '''장르'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> [[:분류:사이키델릭 소울|사이키델릭 소울]], [[펑크(음악)|펑크(Funk)]] ||
||<:><#808080> {{{#ffffff '''재생 시간'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> 3:29 ||
||<:><#808080> {{{#ffffff '''레이블'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> Buddah ||
||<:><#808080> {{{#ffffff '''송라이터'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> Gerry Goffin, Barry Goldberg ||
||<:><#808080> {{{#ffffff '''프로듀서'''}}} ||<bgcolor=#808080><(> Kenny Kerner ||

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== 개요 ==
[[글래디스 나이트 앤 더 핍스]]의 싱글이며 이들의 11집 앨범 [[Imagination(음반)|Imagination]]의 세번째 싱글로 1973년 11월에 발매되었다.

== 오디오 ==
[youtube(9VQ-YomaphA)]

== 가사 ==
||I've really got to use
My imagination
To think of good reasons
To keep on keepin' on (Keep on keepin' on)

Got to make the best of (Best of, best of)
A bad situation (Bad situation)
Ever since that day (Ever since that day)
I woke up and found
That you were gone (Gone, gone)

Darkness all around me
Blockin' out the sun
Old friends call me
But I just don't feel like talkin' to anyone
Emptiness has found me
And it just won't let me go
I go right on livin'
But why, I just don't know (You're too strong, got to keep on keepin' on)
Yes, I am (You're too strong, got to keep on keepin' on)

Staring down reality
Don't do me no good
'Cause our misunderstanding
Is too well understood (Too well understood)
Such a sad, sad season (Sad, sad season)
When a good love dies (When a good love dies)
Not a day goes by (Not a day goes by)
When I don't realize (Realize)

Ooh, ooh, oh, I've really got to use (I've got to use)
My imagination (I've got to use)
To think of good reasons (I've got to use)
To keep on keepin' on (I've got to use)
I've got to make the best of (Best of, best of)
A bad situation (Bad situation)
Ever since that day (Ever since that day)
I woke up and found out
That you were gone (You're too strong, got to keep on keepin' on)

I've got to use (I've got to use)
My imagination (I've got to use)
To think of good reasons (I've got to use)
To keep on pushin' on (I've got to use)
I said I've got to make the best of (Best of, best of)
A bad situation (Bad situation)
Ever since that day (Ever since that day)
I woke up and found out
That you were gone (You're too strong, got to keep on keepin' on)

Oh, I've really got to use (I've got to use)
My imagination (I've got to use)||

== 차트 성적 ==
[[빌보드 R&B 차트]]에서 1974년 1월 셋째 주에 1주 1위, [[빌보드 핫 100]]에서 4위를 기록했다.

[[1974년 빌보드 핫 100 연말 차트]]에선 41위에 올랐다.

[[분류:글래디스 나이트]][[분류:빌보드 핫 100 4위 노래]][[분류:빌보드 R&B 차트 1위 노래]][[분류:1973년 노래]][[분류:1973년 싱글]][[분류:사이키델릭 소울]][[분류:Funk]]