Beware of Smiling Faces.

Smiling faces sometimes

don't tell the truth.

The truth is in the eyes

because the eyes don't lie.

Remember…a smile can be just

a frown turned upside down.

Smiling faces sometimes

don’t show traces of

the evil that lurks within.

Beware of the handshake

that hides a snake.

I'm telling you…beware of

the pat on the back…it might

just be designed to hold you back in life.

Jealousy, misery and envy

are sometimes behind some

smiling faces, handshakes and pats

on the back.

Your enemy won't do you any harm

because you'll know where he's coming from.

But beware of the smile, the handshake

and the pat on the back from a “friend”…

---The Temptations. 

(Song written in 1971 by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong).