Beautiful Enemy

Album: My Better Self (2005)
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  • I saw your flag
    Another star, another stripe
    What's your new bag?
    Something real or just some hype
    Tell me, what have you sown
    Have you prospered and grown?
    Why shouldn't you have your moments of genius
    Just because our alliance broke with no
    Civil words between us

    Oh, my beautiful enemy, beautiful
    I send my scorn and ridicule
    You're not innocent
    No, not innocent
    No one's innocent

    My nation's grand
    Your name's not on any signs
    It's so well-planned
    And well-groomed and yet somehow
    The past tornadoes through
    People talk about you
    Can't they see that your reign
    Is steely and torturous?
    I start thinking that I am sinking
    Inside a hollow fortress

    Oh, my enemy, beautiful enemy
    My stride is slowed by memory but
    Not innocent
    No, not innocent
    No one's innocent

    In my furies of dream
    The juries denounce you
    There I stand with the upper hand
    But in order to trounce you

    I just keep getting above myself
    I just keep getting above myself

    And so I'm worried but as I stated
    Things can be complicated, but
    You're my enemy
    You're my enemy
    You're my enemy

    The future's bright
    There are new things we will love
    It feels so right
    Let's not make up or rise above
    Yes, we are more corrupted
    Happy and productive
    We'll both live in a world of civilized
    People
    Though I've heard that my brand new church
    Has a slightly higher steeple

    Oh, my enemy, beautiful enemy
    Hail to your vast hegemony
    You're not innocent
    I'm not innocent
    No one's innocent

    Oh, my enemy, beautiful enemy
    Hail to your vast hegemony
    You're not innocent
    I'm not innocent
    No one's innocent Writer/s: DAR WILLIAMS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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