Beautiful Enemy
Words and music by Dar Williams
From My Better Self

Transcription by:  Ron Greitzer
Date:  July 5, 2006


Intro: (Dm)(G)(Am)
 
I saw your (Dm)flag
Another (G)star another (C)stripe
What's your new (Dm) bag?
Something (G)real or just some (C)hype?
Tell me what (Am)have you sown
(Dm)Have you (G)prospered and grown
(Dm)Why shouldn't you have your moments of (G)genius?
(Dm)Just because our alliance broke with no (G)civil (C)words between us?
 
(Dm)Oh my beautiful (G)enemy, beautiful
(C)I send my (Am)scorn and ridicule
(Dm)You're not innocent
(G)No, not innocent
(Am)No one's innocent
 
My nation's (Dm)grand
Your name's (G)not on any (C)signs
It's so well-(Dm)planned
And well (G)groomed and yet some(C)times
The past tor(Am)nadoes through
(Dm)People (G)talk about you
(Dm)Can't they see that your rein is steely and (G)torturous?
(Dm)I start thinking that I am sinking in(G)side a (C)hollow fortress
 
(Dm)Oh my enemy, (G)beautiful enemy
(C)My stride is (Am)slowed by memory
(Dm)But not innocent, (G)no not innocent
(Am)No one's innocent
 
(Dm)In my furies I've dreamed that juries de(G)nounce you
(Dm)There I stand with the upper hand
But in (G)order to trounce you
I (Am)just keep getting above myself
I just keep getting above myself
And (Dm)so I'm worried, but (G)as I've stated
(C)Things can be (Am)complicated
But (Dm)you're my enemy
(G)You're my enemy
(Am)You're my enemy
 
The future's (Dm)bright
There are (G)new things we will (C)love
It feels so (Dm)right
Let's not make (G)up or rise a(C)bove
Yes, we are (Am)more corrupted
(Dm)But happy (G)and productive
(Dm)We'll both live in our worlds of civilized (G)people.
(Dm)Though I've heard that my brand new church
Has a (G)slightly (C)higher steeple
 
(Dm)Oh my enemy, (G)beautiful enemy
(C)Hail to your (Am)vast hegemony
(Dm)You're not innocent, (G)I'm not innocent
(Am)No one's innocent

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