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If you were there, beware
The serpent soul pinchers
Three hundred and fifty no thank-yous, 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 rock the words from her gob and
Take the source of the innocents
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
The serpent soul pinchers
Three hundred and fifty no thank-yous, 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 rock the words from her gob and
Take the source of the innocents
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
Lyrics submitted by woulduhvtheguts
Track duration: 04:36
"If You Were There, Beware" as written by Alex Turner
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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It sounds to me like he has spoken about someone to a tabloid and it's has been twisted into somethig else?
"Go on girl go on, give us something gruesome
We require your grief for thugs and the thieves"
Those two stanzas kinda make me think of Madeleine "Maddy" McCann....who knows? I think of this song as the "Maddy" song anyways...
weird shit, but awesome
Something alex feels guilty about for writing mardy bum in the first place... "if i'd have predicted tears then i wouldn't have said it."
"The thieves help the thugs as they're trying to beat
the good grace of a sweetheart out to the point she'll comply."
"Why? Leave her on her own, if I'd have known, I wouldn't have said it, I wouldn't have said it, if I would have known."
This, in my opinion, is definately one of the best songs on the album, together with 'Do Me A Favour'.
The meaning is clear so I thought I'd just say that.