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The Enemy Lyrics
To remain objective
To a closer call
Secretly rejected
And to mediocrity fall
caught on the downslopes of life
The patted shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
Encouraging on the negative scale
Bent out of shape is the measuring norm
In words and in writing
No one knows my enemy like I do
A social repellant
(not) merely an adversary
lost to the falling words
Kept the last of all understood glances
To work against
To a closer call
Secretly rejected
And to mediocrity fall
caught on the downslopes of life
The elbowed side resists
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
Bent out of shape is the measuring norm
In words and in writing
No one knows my enemy like I do
(not) merely an adversary
lost to the falling words
Kept the last of all understood glances
To work against
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This is probably about how societies and people in general need something/somebody to hate (a scapegoat).
Yeah, I think you're right. No matter what happens to society there will always be hate.
"An enemy to define ourselves" - I would say its not just about needing someone to hate as a scapegoat but needed someone to hate in order to actually know who you are. People become defined by their hate. Not my favourite DT song but I do like the lyrics
the first phrase of the lyrics that i heard was "No one knows my enemy like I do". the person you know best is usually yourself, so this would mean, that the protagonist is the enemy that society needs.
i also think that the protagonist itself is the enemy, so you can define youself by the parts you hate. to define for youself, that you don't want to be.