Em Bm
Black, you are my enemy
D/F# Em
And I cannot get close to thee
Bm
Our life is ruled by enmity
D/F# Em
And I can't weaken that
Em Bm
The only way that I can see
D/F# Em
Is to hold you close to me
Bm
To love you for it's meant to be
D/F# Em
I weaken your attack
Everything was lucked and downy
What was good was up from under
Until black, that awful tender
Came and popped my sense of wonder
All at once all eyes turned at him
Leaving me an unwatched body
And it sagged, my body's rib cage
Out from under ogler's study
Black was decomposing quickly
This was found offensive to me
His disrespect for life's proprieties
Made me scared he would destroy me
Em Bm
Black, you are my enemy
D/F# Em
And I cannot get close to thee
Bm
Our life is ruled by enmity
D/F# Em
And I can't weaken that
Em Bm
The only way that I can see
D/F# Em
Is to hold you close to me
Bm
To love you for it's meant to be
D/F# Em
I weaken your attack
So I thought I'd try to cut him
Try to force him 'neath my level
The only way to equal to him
Would be hit him with a shovel
But to really rise above him
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That would be the final evil
So instead I asked the sucker
If he'd care to see my rooms
And as a friend and as a comrade
And all the things that these implied
I made him leave what it was that he had
Used to keep us unallied
Em Bm
Black, you are my enemy
D/F# Em
And I cannot get close to thee
Bm
Our life is ruled by enmity
D/F# Em
And I can't weaken that
Em Bm
The only way that I can see
D/F# Em
Is to hold you close to me
Bm
To love you for it's meant to be
D/F# Em
I weaken your attack
BRIDGE:
Em Bm
Now black and I we are together
Em Bm
Fairly just inseparable
Em Bm
And in the terriblest of weather
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Our bonds are incorruptible
CHORUS:
Em Bm
Black, you are my enemy
D/F# Em
And I cannot get close to thee
Bm
Our life is ruled by enmity
D/F# Em
And I can't weaken that
Em Bm
The only way that I can see
D/F# Em
Is to hold you close to me
Bm
To love you for it's meant to be
D/F# Em
I weaken your attack
