Beautiful Enemy Lyrics - My Better Self - Dar Williams

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 sometimes 

The past tornadoes through, people talk about you 

Can't they see that your rein 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 innocence, no not innocent 

No one's innocent 

In my furies I've dreamed 

That 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've 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 but happy and productive 

We'll both live in our worlds 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