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 the source of the innocence
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 If you were there, beware the serpent soul pinchers
 Can't you sense she was never meant to fill column inches
 Ain't 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
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 There's a circle of witches, ambitiously vicious they are
 And our attempts to remind them of reason won't get us that far
 But 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
 
 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 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
 Ain't 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
 ♪
 There's a circle of witches, ambitiously vicious they are
 And our attempts to remind them of reason won't get us that far
 But 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