Beautiful Enemy - 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 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 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 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 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

Oh, my enemy, beautiful enemy

Hail to your vast hegemony

You’re not innocent

I’m not innocent

No one’s innocent