The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Nas:
Everybody's an Enemy
Telling me lies and it's killing me
Why they all want to get rid of me
Everybody's my enemy
Several try to disguise the devil in them
Wanting to get into my cerebellum but I'm
Ready and willing to tell them that I can't f with them
Exhale so hard it got my chest swelling
Like my dick does when watching naked women
Do sick stuff on my porn collection on television
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
They all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
Cuz everybody is an enemy x2
Nas:
Watching my own back
Strapped with chrome, to my homies
Where the tombstones at, where the hoes at?
Cuz too many men act like dykes, hermaphrodites
With benzene, amen
Look at the trash that's biting
The life in times is kinda weaker
Like the time and life of the sandman on Apollo theater
Imagine that another black with a hook
Who pulls the whack talent off the stage
I'm enraged
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
They all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
Cuz everybody is an enemy x2
JD:
You fill your lies around me
And you think you've won
You feel you can control me
With the things you've done
JD:
You think that you can take me
You think that you can play me
You're going to start to hate me
I feel that you disgraced me x5
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
They all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
Cuz everybody is an enemy x2
Everybody's an Enemy
Telling me lies and it's killing me
Why they all want to get rid of me
Everybody's my enemy
Several try to disguise the devil in them
Wanting to get into my cerebellum but I'm
Ready and willing to tell them that I can't f with them
Exhale so hard it got my chest swelling
Like my dick does when watching naked women
Do sick stuff on my porn collection on television
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
They all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
Cuz everybody is an enemy x2
Nas:
Watching my own back
Strapped with chrome, to my homies
Where the tombstones at, where the hoes at?
Cuz too many men act like dykes, hermaphrodites
With benzene, amen
Look at the trash that's biting
The life in times is kinda weaker
Like the time and life of the sandman on Apollo theater
Imagine that another black with a hook
Who pulls the whack talent off the stage
I'm enraged
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
They all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
Cuz everybody is an enemy x2
JD:
You fill your lies around me
And you think you've won
You feel you can control me
With the things you've done
JD:
You think that you can take me
You think that you can play me
You're going to start to hate me
I feel that you disgraced me x5
Nas:
Trust nobody
I don't know who to call a friend
They all just pretend to be
Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll
Cuz everybody is an enemy x2
Lyrics submitted by Aerion
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