Lyrics The Waterboys

The Waterboys

Be My Enemy

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!