| 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 and you really care, yeah, yeah
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| Then it’s all of you fellows 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 from my friends, yeah, what they doin to me
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| They come to my house 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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| (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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| 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… 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, dirty bastards (Back stabbers) |