Love Your Enemies by Microdisney

From Microdisney’s 1984 Love Your Enemies album. Written by Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan. No capo.

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INTRO

[Em7] [A6] (x2)

VERSE 1

[Em7] Why don’t you [A6] love your enemies?
[Em7] Why don’t you [A6] give them everything?
[Em7] Why don’t you [A6] get down on your knees?
[Em7] A [A6] dore your enemies

[Em7] Idiots, fucking [A6] ugly fools
Fucking [Em7] idiots, fucking [A6] idiots

Fucking [D] all my [C] friends [Bm7] [Gm7]
[D] I mean [C] you [Bm7] [Gm7]
[D] All my [C] friends [Bm7] [Gm7]
[D] God a [C] fraid [Bm7] [Gm7]
And they [D] dance in the [C] streets in the [Bm7] hot after [Gm7] noons
And they [D] spat at our [C] backs and they [Bm7] kicked us a [Gm7] way
To [D] live in the [C] dark, [Bm7] live in the [Gm7] cold
[D] This is the [C] reason [Bm7] why we were [Gm7] born

VERSE 2

[Em7] And his [A6] head is aching
[Em7] And his [A6] God is waiting
[Em7] Why don’t you [A6] put the light up?
[Em7] Why don’t you [A6] put your eyes up?

[Em7] Give them everything, [A6] give them everything
[Em7] Give them everything, [A6] give them everything

[Em7] And this is [A6] all I’ll ever be
[Em7] And this is [A6] all I’ll ever be

We [D] lay in your [C] bed in the [Bm7] hot after [Gm7] noons
And we [D] argued a [C] bout how little [Bm7] money we [Gm7] had
[D] Life in the [C] dark, [Bm7] life in the [Gm7] cold
[D] This is the [C] reason [Bm7] why we were [Gm7] born

Our own language, our own lot
Our own fears and our own gods
Our freedom and the right to do
As we please with the likes of you

VERSE 3

[Em7] And I [A6] try to laugh at them
[Em7] And they [A6] smack me on the face
[Em7] And they [A6] push us through the fields
[Em7] Saying [A6] “Love your enemies”

[Em7] Give them everything, [A6] give them everything
[Em7] It’s too late (ha ha), [A6] blood begins to flow

[Em7] And this is [A6] all we’ll ever be
[Em7] And this is [A6] all they’ll ever be

They [D] own all that [C] stands and the re [Bm7] bellion as [Gm7] well
And it [D] fills them with [C] joy just to [Bm7] see us this [Gm7] way
And [D] taking each [C] step just to [Bm7] take the next [Gm7] breath
And [D] taking each [C] breath just to [Bm7] take the next [Gm7] step

The sun’s going past as I swung from the trees

OUTRO/FADE

[Em7] [A6]

[Em7] Take everything you own [A6]
And make it [Em7] into a neat [A6] pile
Set [Em7] fire to it, [A6] burn it all
[Em7] See what your love can do [A6]
Say “Oh, look what my love did”
[Em7] The [A6] power of love
[Em7] The power of love [A6]
The [Em7] power of love [A6]