If You Can't Hang

## Single by Sleeping with Sirens

"**If You Can't Hang**" is a song by Sleeping with Sirens, released as the third single and second track from the band's sophomore album, *Let's Cheers to This*. The official music video was directed by Thunder Down Country.

## Background

In a track-by-track review, Kellin Quinn shared, "A depiction of three relationships and the lessons we learn along the way. A pre-chorus was in my head for this song while waiting to play a show in San Francisco, and it was infectious; "If you can't hang then there's the door baby". I probably looked like a crazy person singing this tune in my head as I paced up and down the busy streets. I knew this was a song our band could not ignore! Jesse Lawson (guitarist, second song writer) and I were used to working like this together, we finished the song that night before the show started. There was no doubt, 'If You Can't Hang…' would be on the record, there would be no doubt this song would be a favourite."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1]

Met a girl at seventeen

Thought she meant the world to me

So I gave her everything

She turned out to be a cheat

Said she'd been thinking for a long time

And she found somebody new

I've been thinking that this whole time

Girl, I never thought you'd stay, that's okay

I hope he takes your filthy heart and then he throws you away someday

Before you go, there's one thing you oughta know

[Pre-Chorus]

If you can't hang then, there's the door, baby

If you can't hang then, there's the door, baby

If you can't hang then, there's the door, baby

If you can't hang then, there's the door

[Chorus]

I-I-I don't wanna take your precious time

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face

But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

I-I-I don't wanna take up all your time

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face

But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

[Post-Chorus]

You're the lowest type

You're the lowest

[Verse 2]

I met a girl stuck in her ways

She found a boy she knew she'd change

I changed my clothes, my hair, my face

To watch us go our separate ways

She said we've grown apart for sometime

But then she found somebody new

I hope Mr. Right puts up with all the bullshit that you do

Stay the hell away

While I sit here by myself and figure out how I got this way

Before you go, there's one thing you oughta know

[Pre-Chorus]

If you can't hang then, there's the door, baby

If you can't hang then, there's the door, baby

If you can't hang then, there's the door, baby

If you can't hang then, there's the door

[Chorus]

I-I-I don't wanna take your precious time

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face

But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

I-I-I don't wanna take up all your time

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face

But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

[Bridge]

I don't want to get things confused

She said she'd never settle for some boy she couldn't use

So now I gotta call the doctor so he can prescribe me medication

So I can deal with all the memories of being here this way

[Verse 3]

I met a girl at twenty-three

Knew she meant the world to me

So I gave her everything

And she did the same for me

[Breakdown]

Imagine that!

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty face

No you're such a pretty, pretty face

Well, oh, yeah

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty face

No, you're such a pretty, pretty face

[Chorus]

I-I-I don't wanna take your precious time

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face

But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

I-I-I don't wanna take up all your time

'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face

But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

[Outro]

Would you please stay and come inside, baby?

Would you please stay and please be mine, baby?

Would you please stay and come inside, baby?

Would you please stay and please be mine?

## References

1. ↑ "TRACK-BY-TRACK: Sleeping with Sirens – Let's Cheers to This". *Deadpress*. May 27, 2011. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018.