Know Your Enemy Lyrics

Lyric discussion by davidecoyote 

Cover art for Know Your Enemy lyrics by Green Day

It's the rally song for the REVOLUTION!

Okay, so it's very repetitious and a weird choice for a radio single. But Green Day doesn't compose songs anymore, they compose albums. When listened to in context, Song of the Century and 21st Century Breakdown create enough variety for it to fit into place nicely.

It makes me think of the Rage Against the Machine song of the same title which is superior: "Yes I know my enemies, they're the teachers that told me to fight me; compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. All of which are American dreams..."

That last line still gives me goosebumps.

Anyways, I am one who finds great romance in the word "revolution," and so (in that light) this fits into what Green Day should be producing now.

This.

you are ma master:)

Mon master, ma mistress.