If you were there, beware

 
              Em 
If you were there, beware 
                 C 
The serpent soul pinchers 
     Em                                          C 
Three hundred and fifty no thank yous and nobody flinches 
   Em 
Go on girl go on, give us something gruesome 
   C 
We require your grief, the thugs help the thieves 
           Em 
As they're trying to rob the words from her gob and 
         C 
Take the source of the innocents 
  
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Em 
If you were there, beware 
                 C 
The serpent soul pinchers 
      Em 
Can't you sense she was never meant 
               C 
To fill column inches 
    Em 
And you've had enough, what you're trying to dig up 
      C 
Isn't there to be dug, the thieves help the thugs 
           Em 
As they're trying beat the good grace of a sweetheart 
C 
Out to the point she'll comply 
  
Em                   C 
Why leave her on her own 
            Em 
If I'd have known then I wouldn't have said it 
                C 
I wouldn't have said it if I would have known 
Em                   C 
Why leave her on her own 
               Em 
If I predicted tears then I wouldn't have said it 
                C 
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 
    Em          Eb             Em           Eb          Em  Eb Em Eb 
Our attempts to remind them of reason won't get us that far 
        Em           Eb           Em  Eb 
I don't know what it is that they want 
        Em           Eb           Em 
I don't know what it is that they want 
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But I haven't got it to give 
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She hasn't got it to give