Beautiful Enemy-Dar Williams

[ti:Beautiful Enemy] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:My Better Self] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beautiful Enemy - Dar Williams [00:07.60]I saw your flag [00:09.12] [00:11.19]Another star [00:12.39]Another stripe [00:13.93]What's your new bag [00:15.52] [00:17.37]Something real or just some hype [00:20.00]Tell me what have you sown [00:22.19] [00:23.68]Have you prospered and grown [00:25.84] [00:26.55]Why shouldn't you have [00:27.93]Your moments of genius [00:29.81] [00:32.20]Just because our alliance broke [00:34.75]With no civil words between us [00:38.46]Oh [00:38.96]My beautiful enemy [00:40.71]Beautiful [00:41.93]I send my scorn and ridicule [00:44.65]You're not innocent [00:46.07]No [00:46.43]Not innocent [00:47.57]No one's innocent [00:48.76] [00:51.37]My nation's grand [00:52.67] [00:54.86]Your name's not on any signs [00:56.85] [00:57.39]It's so well planned [00:58.98] [01:01.13]And well groomed and yet sometimes [01:03.70]The past tornadoes through [01:05.88] [01:07.40]People talk about you [01:09.42]Can't they see that your rein [01:11.49]Is steely and torturous [01:13.94] [01:16.01]I start thinking that I am sinking [01:18.36]Inside a hollow fortress [01:21.51] [01:22.47]Oh [01:22.73]My enemy [01:23.45]Beautiful enemy [01:24.66] [01:25.47]My stride is slowed by memory [01:28.12]But not innocence [01:29.68]No not innocent [01:31.19]No one's innocent [01:32.31] [01:36.23]In my furies I've dreamed [01:37.85]That juries denounce you [01:40.51] [01:42.29]There I stand with the upper hand [01:44.74]But in order to trounce you [01:48.16]I just keep getting above myself [01:51.26]I just keep getting above myself [01:54.29]And so I'm worried but as I've stated [01:57.45] [01:58.14]Things can be complicated [02:00.76]But you're my enemy [02:02.35]You're my enemy [02:03.80]You're my enemy [02:05.31] [02:07.79]The future's bright [02:09.12] [02:11.14]There are new things we will love [02:13.69]It feels so right [02:14.91] [02:17.00]Let's not make up or rise above [02:19.95]Yes [02:20.47]We are more corrupted [02:22.14] [02:23.57]But happy and productive [02:25.38]We'll both live in our worlds [02:27.77]Of civilized people [02:29.86] [02:32.18]Though I've heard that [02:33.47]My brand new church [02:34.66]Has a slightly higher steeple [02:37.78] [02:38.78]Oh my enemy [02:39.83]Beautiful enemy [02:40.94] [02:41.74]Hail to your vast hegemony [02:44.18] [02:44.85]You're not innocent [02:46.09]I'm not innocent [02:46.99] [02:47.58]No one's innocent [02:48.72] [02:50.83]Oh my enemy [02:52.24]Beautiful enemy [02:53.87]Hail to your vast hegemony [02:56.79] [02:57.32]You're not innocent [02:58.47]I'm not innocent [02:59.99]No one's innocent