If You Were There Beware Lyrics – Arctic Monkeys

[Verse 1]
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 swords to the innocents

[Verse 2]
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

[Bridge]
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

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
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