If You Were There, Beware

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 rob the words from her gob

And take their swords to the innocents

And if you were there, beware the serpent soul pinchers

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

Have you had enough?

What you're trying to dig up isn't there to be dug

The thieves help the thugs

As they're trying to beat the good grace of a sweetheart

Out to the point she'll comply

And 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

They're a circle of witches

Ambitiously vicious they are

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

And 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

And she hasn't got it to give