Arctic Monkeys - if you were there, beware

주인공은 주변의 악의 세력이 무고한 사람의 아픔을 착취하려는 모습을 목격하며 경각심을 일깨운다
그들은 진실을 파헤치려 하고 주인공은 그 과정에서 자신의 발언이 상처와 눈물을 가져올 것임을 알았더라면 말하지 않았을 것이라고 후회한다
결국, 사랑하는 사람을 홀로 두게 된 상황에 대한 안타까움이 느껴진다

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
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