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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          Em        Eb       Em          Eb           Em   Eb Em Eb
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
    Eb        Em        Eb   Em
But I haven't got it to give
Eb         Em        Eb   Em
She hasn't got it to give