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"Keep An Eye"
(written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson)
Recorded by Diana Ross and The Supremes
(and later by Diana Ross as a solo project
with slight alterations to the lyrics)
From the album Love Child (1968)
Cindy Birdsong, Mary Wilson, and Diana Ross

Keep an eye
Keep an eye
Keep an eye
On your close friend, uh huh, oh....

Keep an eye
Keep an eye
Keep an eye
On your close friend

'Cause what you got that'll make you lose
And then turn around and step in your shoes
I say they'll turn around
And step in your shoes

Like the day I stood there numb
Watchin' my friend walk away
With my love on her arm
And all she left me was
The memory of the morning when she said
"I'm sorry for what I have to do
But you see, I love him just as much as you"

Ooh! Keep an eye
Keep an eye
On your close friend, uh huh, oh yeah

Keep an eye
Keep an eye
You better watch out
For your close friend

The devil's workshop is a busy place
On top of evil there's an innocent face
Oh, on top of evil he puts an innocent face
She was just like a spider
Only twice as smart

Kindness was the thread
She used to weave our world apart
There used to be three of us seen all over town
Now there's only two
Someone's missing guess who

Now I see how she schemed
And finally worked her way inbetween
She planted seeds of mistrust
Here and there causing us to fight unaware
Her comforting way when I would cry
Shadowed the look of triumph in her eye
Just like a snake on the limb of a tree
A friend is an enemy you can't see, hmm-mmm

'Cause what you got
That'll make you lose
And then turn around
And step in your shoes
Oh, they'll turn around
And step in your shoes

So you better keep an eye on your close friend
You better watch out for your close friend
Oh! Don't trust nobody
Don't trust nobody
Keep an eye on your close friend
You better watch out for your close friend
You better watch out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Ms. Valerie Simpson for assistance in transcribing Nick Ashford's fabulous lyric! You two are the best.

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