(What they do)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah
Then it’s all of you fellows who better beware, yeah, yeah, yeah
Somebody’s out to get your lady
A few of your buddies they sure look shady
Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Aiming right back at you and I don’t think that they’ll miss
(What they do)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
I keep getting all these visits from my friends, yeah, what they doing to me
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah, yeah
So are they there to see my woman
I don’t even be home but they just keep on coming
What can I do to get on the right track
I wish they’d take some of these knives off my back
(What they do)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place, yeah they know what they do
(Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
They know what you do, back stabber, back stabber
(Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
Hope you mend your ways, you back stabber
(Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
(Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
(Back stabbers)