lirik lagu leon rosselson - where's the enemy?
[chorus]
where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
we just turned round for a minute now he’s gone
oh where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
without the enemy how can normal life go on?
we need someone to deter
so where’s the bounder?
wheres the cur?
wherеs the evil empirе we all loathed and feared?
where’s the enemy, because we need him to show we’re the boys that fight for freedom?
where has the enemy disappeared?
[verse 1]
i remember well the morning
woken by the sirens calling
‘to the bunker!’ came the cry
and down we fled
said our commander ‘men i fear that there’s looming nearer, and it’s godless, and it’s ruthless, and it’s red!’
‘but we’ll teach the bear a lesson by fore~stalling his aggression’
‘a preemptive strike will catch him on the hop!’
‘so wave your flags and nuclear missiles, and let’s have no coward dissile say the word ‘let’s go and so over the top”
[verse 2]
but there, to our surprise, a russian idile met our eyes
people sunbathing and swimming in the lake
there was fun yeah
there was masha playing chess and eating kasha
and i thought we made a big mistake
and as we turned to go back
they began to dance a hopak
you know how russians like to leap about
singing ‘comrades now’s your chance lay down your arms and join the dance’
and it was then we heard our great commander shout
[chorus]
where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
he was here last time i looked and now he’s gone!
oh where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
without the enemy how can normal life go on?
we need someone to deter
so where’s that son of lucifer?
wheres the evil empire we all loathed and feared?
where’s the enemy, because we need him to show we’re the boys that fight for freedom?
where has the enemy disappeared?
[verse 3]
then at midnight came the order
sitting just across the border
is the enemy of decency and truth
he’s a p~rnographic thug
who traffics in illicit drugs
to corrupt the finest flower of our youth
he is darkness
he is evil
and he drinks blood with the devil
and you’ll know him by his crimson underwear
and to here the villain brag about how he spits upon our flag
is an insult that this nation will not bare
[verse 4]
it’s our mission to arrest him
but first we’re gonna test him
by zapping him with everything we’ve got
so with gunships, tanks, and mortars
we bombarded his headquarters
till their was nothing left to mark the spot
then we went in at the double
and we rummaged through the rubble
but we couldn’t find a trace of him at all
said our commander ‘it’s black magic!’
and he used unseemly adjectives
and puffing out his chest began to ball
[chorus]
where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
surely somebody somewhere caught a glimpse!
of the enemy
oh we need the enemy
because how else can we be sure we’re not wimps?
where that vicious reprobate?
we need someone we can hate
someone preferably foreign, dark, and weird
so that decent folk can see we’re the bulwark of democracy
and where has the enemy disappeared?
[verse 5]
said our commander ‘learn to know the folk’
‘conspiring to overthrow those freedoms that the law guarantees’
‘flying pickets! wildcat strikers! causing mayhem and the like as they attempt to bring this country to its knees!’
‘mobs of mindless demonstrators, led by outside agitators, bully boy’s who must not be allowed to win!’
‘hippie scroungers! trouble makers! ban the bombers! and lawbreakers!’
these are all he said ‘the enemy within’
‘so get ready for the fray’
‘we must keep anarchy at bay’
‘grab your truncheons and your anti~riot gear’
[verse 6]
so of we charge in strict formation
to keep order in the nation
as we waited for the enemy to appear
but all that we could see
is people just like you and me
doing no one any harm that we could tell
chanting slogans singing songs
as they marched peacefully along
which was enough for our bold commander to yell
[chorus]
where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
doesn’t he know we need someone to blame
oh where’s the enemy?
oh where’s the enemy?
yes we’ll find the enemy somewhere just the same
some snake gotta pay the price
for cheating us of paradise
we we’re quite content until he interfered
oh where’s the mob, the heard, the horde, against whom we can maintain law and order?
where has the enemy disappeared?
grant us an enemy oh lord, against whom we can maintain law and order!
where has the enemy disappeared?
[bridge]
and so we wondered in all the world where the enemy might be
and we finally decided that as far as we could see
one face could fit our nightmares of which we could all agree
so we surrounded our commander and sang in harmony
[outro]
there’s the enemy
oh there’s the enemy
if we have to have any enemy why not you?
yes you’re the enemy
oh you’re the enemy
oh you’re a finger, fraud, a humbug through and through
with the power that you prize
and your xenophobic lies
with your privileges, your wealth, and endless greed
without you to foster hatred we just might learn to cooperate
and you are the enemy we don’t need
without you to foster hate and fear we just might learn to cooperate
and you are the enemy we don’t need
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