Be My Enemy - The Waterboys

Well the dawn is howling

And the mainframe shakes

Feel like I’ve been sleeping in a

Cellar full of snakes

My wings have been clipped

My shoes have been stuck with glue

Well if you’ll be my enemy

I’ll be your enemy too

Now I’ve got goons on my landing

Thieves on my trail

Nazis on my telephone

Willing me to fail

They were all sent by someone

(Obviously/Well I know it was) you!

Well if you’ll be my enemy

I’ll be your enemy too

I’ve a bucketful of Babylon

I got a handful of lead

I’m gonna put them in a gun man

Point it at your head

Because you stole all my friends

And you gave me the buffalo blues

Well if you’ll be my enemy

I’ll be my enemy too

Now from the slime on your tongue

To the nails on your toes

From the scales on your skin

To the stains on your clothes

You’re gonna have to make me do something

That I do not want to do

But if you’ll be my enemy

I’ll be your enemy too

My hands are tied

I’m nailed to the floor

Feel like I’m knocking on the

Unknown door

There’s a gun at my back

A blade at my throat

I keep finding hate mail

In the pockets of my coat

Well I’ve been trying to grow

I been cooling my heels

I’ve have been working the treadmill

I’ve been working in the fields

And I can’t get to sleep

I can’t catch my breath

I can’t stop talking and I

Look like death

But I will put right this disgrace

I will rearrange you

If you’ll be my enemy

I’ll be your enemy too

If you’ll be my enemy

I’ll be your enemy too

Be my enemy!