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Be Careful
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Oct 7, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Tommee Profitt's "Be Careful" reads like a warning scrawled on a wall before a storm. The lyric paints a world of snakes in the grass, a drunkard's choir grinning while it lies, and monsters in the shadows worse than tigers and bears. It's a cold, turning place where "Poppa won't hear your cries" and no one gets out alive. The song doesn't offer a rescue plan; it offers a warning, repeated like a refrain: don't say I didn't warn ya. The final line, "Be careful little eyes what you see," borrows the cadence of a children's prayer, turning innocence into a survival instruction. The tone is urgent, almost parental, but the parent here is absent or unheard, leaving the listener to tread lightly on the fire alone. There's no explicit gospel turn, no altar call, just the stark recognition that the world is dangerous and the end of days is close. The song's power lies in that refusal to soften the threat, making the warning itself the only mercy on offer.
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Be careful, it's a mad world
You're walking with the snakes in the grass
Yeah it's a mean world, people crazy
Don't ever turn your back on the night
'Cause lurking in the shadows there are monsters
Worse than the tigers and bears
Living in the jungle, it's a nightmare
Now don't say I didn't warn ya
Be careful, it's a strange world
You're singing in a drunkard's choir
They're grinning and they're laughing while they're lying
Picking your bones till you're dead, man
Walking on thin ice, in the deep end
It's a dead-end, tread lightly on the fire
With caution 'cause there's danger
Now don't say I didn't warn ya
Be careful, it's a cruel world
Poppa won't hear your cries
'Cause it's a cold world, as it turns and turns
You're never getting out alive
Oh, don't be foolish, run far away from this place
You're falling too fast into the end of days
Be careful little eyes what you see
And don't say I didn't warn ya