Enemy Lyrics

Everyone thinks they're the good ones

Trying not to look in the mirror

But I see my people are fading

Digging our own graves

We think the enemy

Is them, there, can't you see

Terrorists and welfare queens

Sure as can be

But do you ever wonder why

There's always one more hate to try

What you might be missing

What you can't see

Because I've met the enemy

And the enemy is me

Nine at Emanuel

Three hundred at Wounded Knee

This violence is our history

And silence our complicity

And I ask you here right now

Who do you want to be

If only it were that simple

Somebody for us to blame

The system, it wants us fighting

While it feasts on our remains

I see no enemy

But if I did it would be me

My people have lost our way

Sure as can be

How do I turn and face

What we've become in the name of race

How do I dig its roots

From inside me

Because I've met the enemy

And the enemy's in me

Eight in Atlanta

El Paso had twenty three

It's silence that's our history

And violence our complicity

We must at last stand down

If we want to be free

Freedom

You are calling

Oh, freedom from all this hate

And from the need to subjugate

Freedom isn't quite the thing

You think it should be

And if there is an enemy

Its name is white supremacy

And everywhere they're rising up

So let's get free

Because I know this enemy

Inside of me

And it will stop at nothing

To make sure no one's free

It's long past time to pick a side

Will your kids believe you tried?

Because let me tell you now

One day we'll make it die

Make it die

It will die

Let it die