Arctic Monkeys If You Were There Beware Lyrics

If You Were There Beware Lyrics

If you were there, beware the serpent soul pinchers

Three hundred and fifty 'no thank you's' and nobody flinches

Go on girl, go on, give us something gruesome

We require your grief, the thugs help the thieves

As they're trying to rob the words from her gob

And take the source of the innocence



If you were there, beware the serpent soul pinchers

Can't you sense she was never meant to fill column inches?

And you've had enough, what you're trying to dig up

Isn't there to be dug, the thieves help the thugs

As they're trying be the good grace of a sweetheart

Out to the point she'll comply



Why leave her on her own?

If I'd have known then I wouldn't have said it

I wouldn't have said it if I would have known



Why leave her on her own?

If I predicted tears then I wouldn't have said it

I wouldn't have said it if I would have known



There's a circle of witches, ambitiously vicious they are

Our attempts to remind them of reason won't get us that far

I don't know what it is that they want

I don't know what it is that they want

But I haven't got it to give

She hasn't got it to give