Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer
Time: 3:19
The way you've no reverence to my concern
So I'll be sure to stay wary of you, love
To save the pain of once my flame and twice my burn

careful; marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
Heard in 47 songs (55M+ combined views) — most famously in "Shadowboxer" by Fiona Apple.
Updated August 1, 2026
Time: 3:19
The way you've no reverence to my concern
So I'll be sure to stay wary of you, love
To save the pain of once my flame and twice my burn

Time: 1:20
Follow me we have much to discuss
Be wary what you cry out into the open sky
Crazy things can happen in the blink of an eye

Time: 0:45
I know good pussy when I see it, I'm a visionary
I know them haters talkin', always had us very wary
Yup, on the 35th of Nevuary
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Time: 0:48
I said who are you to talk about impending doom?
He got kinda wary as he looked around the room
He said, "I'm a minister, a big shot in the state"

Time: 5:24
I maintain, momentum and I made a name clearly
But I can't stop, I believe it's no rest for the wary
From the cards I was dealt, to awards on my shelf

Time: 0:13
Gaza man nuh tek nuh diss, yuh violate yuh pay, dearly
Hear di baby dem nuh scary, Eagle pitch, Picherie wary
Nuh boy nuh step pon mi suede

Time: 2:32
The poor disguise that fails to fool
The wary eye is trained on you
What we are is the sum of a thousand lives

Time: 2:01
Still worth it's weight in gold
So from now on I'm gonna be so much more wary
When you start to speak and my warm blood starts to boil

Time: 0:20
(Uh, uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) beware
(Uh, uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) and be wary
(Uh, uh-uh, uh, uh, uh) it's oh so scary

Time: 3:37
Like the nigga James Brown, me and my niggaz are puttin it down
So bustas be wary cause see we represent the city
Where niggaz caught slippin is left with they brains drippin

Time: 0:23
Pole looking Bloody Mary
Hitting anybody near me, my own friends moving wary
Reckless, reckless, aggressive, aggressive

Time: 2:39
When you're rockin' to the music of the D.O.C. and
Dre is on the cut, so be wary of all movement
But whatever you do, take the time

Time: 0:53
Salvation in a human chain
All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
Of a mircale too good to be true

Time: 0:22
There's a little girl
Wary of the world
She got much to learn

Time: 1:52
But what you see may not be the entirety
So be wary
He's just out for the one night

Time: 4:03
Ain't gonna be no more kings
Be wary of any man that claims
Because deep down, he clings onto the need for power

Time: 3:14
Self protection was in times of true danger
Your best defense to mistrust and be wary
Surrendering a feat of unequalled measure

Time: 0:39
I promise to think before I speak
To be wary of who I give my energy to
Because it is needed for a greater cause

Time: 0:16
And would you want me standing in the same light?
I wasn't wary of trouble when it's under my skin
They never made me aware of all of those things

Time: 0:48
Thus he knelt before her feet
Wary lest their eyes should meet
He knew his life was incomplete

Time: 0:18
Held up by the scruff
Wary of the jump
Dependency

Time: 1:29
I can't recall
And I'm wary of most strangers
Am I the fool

Time: 0:37
Or your whole world bein' tossed around
Be wary of a woman, a woman so fine
Don't want to change you, who loves you just right

Time: 2:05
Well it's quite unnecessary
When I can get so wary
Well it's just not necessary

Time: 0:48
Whoa-oh (whoa-oh)
Change is the thing you're wary of
Whoa-oh (whoa-oh)

Time: 1:38
Mother Mary quite contrary
Kiss the boys and make them wary
Things are getting just a little bit scary

Time: 2:33
Journalism's kinda scary
And of it we should be wary
Wonder what became of Mary?

Time: 0:52
Dragging back home to you
I was so wary then
The ugly American

Time: 0:58
circling our tomorrows
in the wary month of spring.
Chasing shadows slipping

Time: 2:47
My plan is dwindling with every pulse bump. Gods and monsters yield the lump sum of the dolt clump.
Be wary when the stratosphere tints.
I Scout like Atticus Finch, inching up slow in the games of reconnaissance.

Time: 0:59
Take care of yourself, you'll learn to live again
Wary but wiser in the end, perhaps, oh well
Just go

Time: 0:20
She slipped in sideways like a cat (Yvette)
Side-long glances, what a wary little stray (Yvette)
She sticks in his mind like that

Time: 1:50
Law and order
You told me be wary of the sharks and then you became one
What can anyone truly expect from a day one?

Time: 2:51
Just throw them to the alligators and we'll deal with them later
So be wary of the liquidator
Cos we'll deal with you later

Time: 2:35
Course I'm
Wary
Well the sight of you unbearing

Time: 0:26
Heart's terrain is never a prairie
But you weren't wary
You took my hand

Time: 1:35
♪
Remeber I tried not to be wary
This failed me once too much

Time: 2:15
Come home, come home
Ye who are wary come home
Ernestly, tenderly Jesus is calling

Time: 0:58
Horrors in the night, touched by the projector
Wary of your skin, foul and innocent
Searching in the night, nothing to discover, oh

Time: 1:21
Witch's vision as their guide
Be wary and keep watch tonight
Make sure your weapon's at hand

Time: 1:55
We'll find some peace, just you, my staff and I
No need to be so wary, it isn't necessary
You see I'm just an ordinary guy

Time: 0:49
The masses begin to devolve
Once dear neighbours turn wary foes
Brother against brother, sister against sister

Time: 0:00
We must be wary of fallen stars
♪

Time: 0:47
In beauty wearing off
Beware, be wary of
The Idolness of Gods

Time: 3:11
Makes me wonder where you've been to
But I'm wary of asking questions
I don't want to be taught any more lessons

Time: 4:42
Between births we're tearing
Hard gurgling, snarling, fear, lean and wary
Alert untrusty

Time: 0:44
He asked for my hand in the fall
But mother, oh, mother, you said, "Child, be wary
When a sweet-talkin' man comes to call"
