Love Your Enemies
Released in 1984 by Rough Trade
Transpose
INTRO (x2)
Em7
A
VERSE 1
Em7
Why don’t you
A
love your enemies?
Em7
Why don’t you
A
give them everything?
Em7
Why don’t you
A
get down on your knees?
Em7
A
A
dore your enemies
Em7
Idiots, fucking
A
ugly
fools
Fucking
Em7
idiots, fucking
A
idiots
Fucking
D
all my
D7
friends
G
Gm
D
I mean
D7
you
G
Gm
D
All my
D7
friends
G
Gm
D
God
a
D7
fraid
G
Gm
And they
D
dance in the
D7
streets in the
G
hot
after
Gm
noons
And they
D
spat at our
D7
backs and they
G
kicked us a
Gm
way
To
D
live in the
D7
dark,
G
live in the
Gm
cold
D
This is the
D7
reason
G
why we were
Gm
born
VERSE 2
Em7
And his
A
head is aching
Em7
And his
A
God is waiting
Em7
Why don’t you
A
put the light up?
Em7
Why don’t you
A
put your eyes up?
Em7
Give them everything,
A
give them everything
Em7
Give them everything,
A
give them everything
Em7
And this is
A
all I’ll ever be
Em7
And this is
A
all I’ll ever be
We
D
lay in your
D7
bed in the
G
hot
after
Gm
noons
And we
D
argued
a
D7
bout how little
G
money we
Gm
had
D
Life in the
D7
dark,
G
life in the
Gm
cold
D
This is the
D7
reason
G
why we were
Gm
born
INTERLUDE
Gm
Our own language, our own lot, our own fears and our own gods
D
Our freedom and the right to do
F#m/G
as we please with the likes of you
VERSE 3
Em7
And I
A
try to laugh at them
Em7
And they
A
smack me on the face
Em7
And they
A
push us through the fields
Em7
Saying
“
A
Love your enemies”
Em7
Give them everything,
A
give them everything
Em7
It’s too late (ha ha),
A
blood begins to flow
Em7
And this is
A
all we’ll ever be
Em7
And this is
A
all they’ll ever be
They
D
own all that
D7
stands and the re
G
bellion as
Gm
well
And it
D
fills them with
D7
joy just to
G
see us this
Gm
way
And
D
taking each
D7
step just to
G
take the next
Gm
breath
And
D
taking each
D7
breath just to
G
take the next
Gm
step
SPOKEN
The sun spun past as I swung from the trees
OUTRO/FADE
Em7
A
Take
Em7
everything you
A
own
And make it
Em7
into a neat
A
pile
Set
Em7
fire to it,
A
burn it all
Em7
See what your love can do,
A
say:
“Oh, look what my
Em7
love
did”
The
A
power of love
The
Em7
power of love
A
The
Em7
power of love
A