Beautiful Enemy - Dar Williams

作词：Dar Williams

作曲：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

Oh my enemy

Beautiful enemy

Hail to your vast hegemony

You're not innocent

I'm not innocent

No one's innocent