I am not a native english speaker, sometimes i come across text which i just don't get...like in Tangerine the text goes:

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I feel blue
Some days I just wanna black out
Everything I felt for U
Even though I take your picture
Everywhere I go
I use it for a coaster and drink the overflow

Some days I make a lot of money
And give it all away
2 take my mind off the tangerine colour
Of your negligee
Beggars cant be choosy
If they dont know how 2 serve
U got a different phone number
...and a lot of nerve

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I miss U, 2

But what does he mean by:
Beggars cant be choosy
If they dont know how 2 serve

Tx for the help!

101 said:

does it matter?

Beggers cant be choosers is a chliche in the english language

it basically means dont be picky with what you get

is that any help?

ravein2thejoy said:

let's see so it could mean:

Beggers can't be choosy/choosers = I cannot be so picky, i shouldn't care so much
If they don't know how to serve = If i don't no how to deal with her

Yeah starts to make sense...

IAintTheOne said:

Why not, and I guess it mattered enough 4 you to respond... having a bad day?

4 some reason this song always felt like an (earlier)different album era

IAintTheOne said:

This is such a tacky, rude forum.

Efan said:

I don't think he or she is intelligent enough to answer the question for the OP and that's why he or she responded in the way they did.
Quite sad actually.

101 said:

Here is a common example...

Someone asks another person for a cigarette...and they give them a cigarette...
That person is ungrateful if they say, "damn....I wish it was a Benson&Hedges instead of a Kool Menthol."

Beggar's can't be choosy.

IAintTheOne said:

You have the lyrics right in front of you,read.
Understand I've given u everything u ask for,but it's not enough.So now I can't even talk 2 u, because u changed your phone number. U had nothing, and I give u all I could give !!!!!

_____

Makes U think, doesn't it!!!!

I wonder if the "if they don't know how to serve" line has something to do with the way she worships. Perhaps it was just another way to say that she didn't have any humility??