(What they do)
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(They smile in your face)
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stabbers (back stabbers)
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(They smile in your face)
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stabbers (back stabbers)
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All you fellows who have someone
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And you really care, yeah, yeah
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Then it's all of you fellows
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Who better beware, yeah yeah
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Somebody's out to get your lady
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A few of your buddies they sure look shady
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Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
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Aimin' straight at your back
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And I don't think they'll miss
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(What they do)
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(They smile in your face)
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stabbers (back stabbers)
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I keep gettin' all these visits
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From my friends, yeah, what they doin to me
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They come to my house
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Again and again and again and again, yeah
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So are they there to see my woman
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I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'
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What can I do to get on the right track
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I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back
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(What they do)
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(They smile in your face)
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stabbers
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(Back stabbers)
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Low down, dirty
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(What they do)
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(They smile in your face)
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Smiling faces
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Smiling faces sometimes tell lies (back stabbers)
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(They smile in your face)
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I don't need low down
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Dirty bastards (back stabbers)
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Back Stabbers
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| The O'Jays |