<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[If You Cleave (Parody of If You Leave by OMD)]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">This is sung from Cliff's perspective at the sword-filled end of his Series 3 quest, and is based on If You Leave by OMD. The song is best known from the film Pretty In Pink, starring Molly Grimwold. Sorry, Motley Ringwold. You know who I mean. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPmTGFg06zA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Music video</a>, <a href="http://www.metrolyrics.com/if-you-leave-lyrics-omd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">lyrics</a></p>
<p dir="auto">[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXeZDxk31Ps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Cliff sings to McGrew</a>:]</p>
<p dir="auto">If you cleave, don't cleave now</p>
<p dir="auto">Please don't take my hide away</p>
<p dir="auto">Leave me to become a knight</p>
<p dir="auto">And we'll go our separate ways</p>
<p dir="auto">We always had time to decide</p>
<p dir="auto">But now it's fading fast</p>
<p dir="auto">Doom has beckoned, we don't notice:</p>
<p dir="auto">You're Scottish, but a non-Scot's been cast</p>
<p dir="auto">We spellcast D-A-N-C-E</p>
<p dir="auto">I won't stay put to hear your pleas</p>
<p dir="auto">I heed you not and I just cannot see</p>
<p dir="auto">That I was wrong to get away Scot-free</p>
<p dir="auto">[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7VsyCs2AjQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">Cliff sings to the floating sword</a>:]</p>
<p dir="auto">If you cleave, I will die</p>
<p dir="auto">I won't last another day</p>
<p dir="auto">But if you leave, please don't hack</p>
<p dir="auto">Make it clean and the blood won't spray</p>
<p dir="auto">Standing here I must acknowledge</p>
<p dir="auto">We should have helped McGrew</p>
<p dir="auto">Heaven knows what happens now</p>
<p dir="auto">I've got to, I've gotta flee from you</p>
<p dir="auto">I dodge you once, I dodge you twice</p>
<p dir="auto">I miss the green room with the dice</p>
<p dir="auto">I need McGrew like I needed him then</p>
<p dir="auto">I wonder if his jig will end</p>
<p dir="auto">You stab me once, you stab me twice</p>
<p dir="auto">The quest is over in a trice</p>
<p dir="auto">I need McGrew like I needed him then</p>
<p dir="auto">Perhaps one quest he'll make a friend</p>
<p dir="auto">A sword came once, a sword came twice</p>
<p dir="auto">And neither time was very nice</p>
<p dir="auto">Now we're dismissed, so it's dinnertime then</p>
<p dir="auto">But I can't face fresh meat again</p>
<p dir="auto">Today</p>
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