Be careful what you say
Don't meddle with your friends
One loose conversation
Just might put you in the end
Your smooth reputation
Just goes falling by the way
Stranded in some parking lot
With no face left to save

Lies, don't lie, baby don't tell lies

It's a little play on words
So don't misunderstand
That someone you once knew so well
Has turned the other hand
Secrets told in haste
Are just written on the wall
Burning 'cross the mountain tops
It's hard to learn to fall

Lies, don't lie, baby don't tell lies

It ain't nobody's business
What you're thinking to yourself
Keeping your mind on your own time
Ain't got no line on nobody else
If it ain't what you said
Then someone misconstrued
They must have missed your meaning
By the way it looks on you
I never meant to hurt my friends
And every time I did
Words I chose to speak
My heart just ran away and hid
Lies, don't lie, baby don't tell lies

It ain't nobody's business
What you're thinking to yourself
Keeping your mind on your own time
Ain't got no line on nobody else

Be careful what you say
If it ain't something good
If it ain't what you wanna hear
Around the neighborhood
You better keep your hat pulled down
Low around your ears
Don't listen to the idle words
That you once spoke so clear

Lies, don't lie, baby don't tell lies
Yeah I'd save the lies, baby lies don't lie