Deniece Williams

Songwriter: Deniece Williams Clarence McDonald Lani Groves

Producer: Charles Stepney Maurice White

Baby, just don't lie there
Baby, please don't stay
I can't help if I feel this way
Baby, I've been cryin'
Baby, I've been tryin'
Of failing love, I tried to say, yeah

How'd I know that love would slip away, slip away
How'd I know that love would slip away, slip away
(Hey-hey, yeah)

You always made some promises
You knew you never keep
But when you said you'd phone and didn't
You knew that I'd lose sleep
Tried to understand you
I did the best I could
But, boy, I can't keep lovin' you
That way I said I would

How'd I know that love would slip away, slip away
(How'd I know that love would slip away)
Tell me, how was I to know
It would slip away, yeah
(Hey-hey, yeah)

How was I to know
That love would slip away
Tell me, how'd I know
That love would slip away, yeah

How'd I know that love would slip away
(How'd I know love would slip away)
How'd I know that love would slip away
(Love slipped away)
(Hey-hey, yeah)

How'd I know that love would slip away
(How was I to know)
(It would go away, boy, I didn't know)
How'd I know that love would slip away
(I thought love would stay, I did)
(I thought it would stay)
(Hey-hey, yeah)

How'd I love that love would slip away
Broken promise, I didn't know
I thought our love was here to stay
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, you lied to me...

Deniece Williams (born name June Deniece Chandler) is an American singer, songwriter and producer. She was born June 3, 1950. She has been described as “one of the great soul voices” by the BBC. Williams has won four Grammys with twelve nominations altogether.

As Deniece Chandler, she recorded for The Toddlin' Town group of labels. One of those early records, “I’m Walking Away”, released on Toddlin’s subsidiary Lock Records in the late 1960s, is a favorite on England’s Northern Soul scene. In the early 1970s she became a backup vocalist for Stevie Wonder as part of “Wonderlove”, lending her vocals on his albums Talking Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life. Williams also guested in 1974 on Syreeta Wright’s album Stevie Wonder Syreeta as well as Minnie Riperton’s Perfect Angel album and a year later on Roberta Flack’s Feel Like Makin' Love.

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