Watch Your Back

Watch you back

I saw you slippin' in the dark, baby,

Whisperin' lies like they your art, baby,

You thought my heart was made of glass,

But you forgot, love-

I got ancestors watchin' my past.

You touched my trust with dirty hands,

Played my soul like a one-night band,

Now the river knows your name,

And the moon been tellin' me the same...

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Every seed you plant gon' grow back twice,

Every cold word gon' turn to ice,

Every kiss you stole gon' taste like shame,

When the wind starts whisperin' your name...

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Watch your back... oh, baby...

I ain't talkin' 'bout the street, I'm talkin' spirit deep,

Watch your back... mm-hmm...

Every step you take, feel my shadow in your sleep.

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You laughed when I gave you my all,

Now the walls talk back when I call,

I lit that sage, I lit that flame,

I wrote your secrets in the rain.

See, karma's slow but she don't miss,

She hold her pen with a poet's fist,

And you gon' read every line I write-

Even in your dreams at night.

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Under the candlelight, I call your name three times...

Salt on the sill, mirror turned face-down...

Not to kill, but to make you see,

What you did to me,

What you took from me.

Baby, this ain't hate-this is history.

And history don't forget...

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Watch your back... oh, baby...

I ain't talkin' 'bout the street, I'm talkin' spirit deep,

Watch your back... mm-hmm...

Every step you take, feel my shadow in your sleep.

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Watch your back...

Watch your back...

The river knows your name...

The moon knows your shame...

Watch... your... back...