Anita Baker

Released: March 20, 1986

Songwriter: Anita Baker

Producer: Michael J. Powell

I know the kind of pain you offer
Baby, I've felt your kind of pain before
Change your mind
Like revolving doors
Change your women
Like you change your clothes

I'm telling you
You better watch your step
You'll fall and hurt yourself one day
You better watch your step
You'll fall and hurt yourself one day

I don't understand your thinking
Don't know why you do the things you do
Break my heart
And disregard my feelings
Breaking hearts
Some kind of game to you

I'm telling you
You better watch your step
You'll fall and hurt yourself one day
You better watch your step
You'll fall and hurt yourself one day

It's so easy to tease me
It's so easy to let me down
It's so easy to mislead me
It's so easy to leave me hanging around
Nowhere to come down

Maybe we should just forget this
Baby, just throw me out of your mind
I won't stay
Not while you mistreat me
I won't stay
It's just a waste of my time

I'm telling you
You better watch your step
You'll fall and hurt yourself one day
Baby, listen
You better watch step
You'll fall and hurt yourself one day

Anita Baker is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter known for her distinct low contralto vocals. She started out in the band Chapter 8, which had the hit song “I Just Wanna Be Your Girl” that was later sampled by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony for their hit song “1st of tha Month.” “Anita” went on to become a big name in ‘80s R&B alongside “Luther” and “Whitney” as she began to rack up #1 hits.

Her debut album, The Songstress, was released in 1983 on independent label Beverly Glen and featured the hit song “Angel.” She left Beverly Glen and signed with Elektra Records, releasing her second album Rapture in 1986, which went on to sell over 5 million albums and peaked at #1 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart thanks to the hits “Sweet Love,” “Same Ole Love,” and “Caught Up in the Rapture.”

Her third album, Giving You the Best That I Got, was released in 1988 and hit #1 on the Billboard 200, and the title track hit #1 on both the Billboard R&B and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. Rapture and Giving You the Best That I Got accounted for five of her eight Grammy Awards, with her sixth in that time frame coming from her gospel collaboration with The Winans on the song “Ain’t No Need To Worry” in 1988.

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