Lyrics to
Keep An Eye

This version of Keep An Eye was released by Diana Ross in 1970.

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

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

I stood there numb
Watchin’ my friend walk away
With my love on her arm

Oh, what she said was
“Sorry for what I had to do
But you see I love him just as much as you”

Keep an eye
Keep an eye
On your close friend

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 a thread
She used to weave my world apart
There were three of us seen all over town
Now there’s only two
Someone’s missing guess who

Now I see how she schemed and
Worked her way in between
Planted seeds of mistrust
To make us fight unaware
Her comforting ways when I would cry
Shadowed the look of triumph in her eye
Just like a snake on the limb tree
A friend is an enemy you can see

‘Cause what you got that’ll make you lose
And then turn around and step in your shoes
I said 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
Don’t trust nobody
Don’t trust nobody
Keep an eye on your close friend
Keep an eye
Don’t trust nobody
Keep an eye on your close friend
You better watch out for your close friend
She was just like a spider
Only twice as smart

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About Lyrics and Keep An Eye by Diana Ross

When you decide to study the lyrics to Keep An Eye, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Diana Ross. Some of the lyrics to Keep An Eye have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Diana Ross and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Keep An Eye if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Keep An Eye" means the words set to the music of Keep An Eye, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Diana Ross. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Keep An Eye and the lyrics to Keep An Eye are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Diana Ross who came here looking just for the lyrics to Keep An Eye, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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