This started as a simple progression in A that I made up around a drum loop on the PC initially. It kinda sat forgotten about until I brought it into rehearsal one day and we took it from there. I do remember putting the arrangment together with Tony one day when Gary couldn't make rehearsal, and I remember writing the chorus chord progression and us having to record it onto my mobile phone. Needless to say it sounded painful, but clear enough I could remember what was going on when I got back home. This song kinda wrote itself as its one of those that came from jamming, where you just go for it and improvise a bit and see where it goes.
The moody end section, however, was something I had written probably a few years in advance but never had the chance to put it in anything up until that point. It fitted perfectly, coz it kinda took the song away from that sort of laid-back groovy feel into a deeper and more thoughtful part. Where these two main chuncks of the song meet, it is perfectly feasible to just end the song there I suppose. That can be the "radio edit"! :)
Lyrically, the title kinda says it all really. The song is about not only having enemies (everyone has them) but also how people can sometimes encourage enemies, seek, provoke & manipulate them, as described in the chorus: "What do you think of me? Let your words run free, make an enemy of me!" . The song is also a reflection on how, conversley, we can try to reach out to someone and seek to engage with them, but they throw it back in your face and want to be your 'enemy'.
The last section of the song which I mentioned, kinda takes this particular story forward. The person tries to reconcile differences after having sought conflict initially. The idea is that the attempt is met with either disinterest or hostility, and the person is left feeling he has run out of options. The last line "Come save me from myself" indicates that the real enemy is actually himself, and that cry for help may or may not have been requianted depending on how you wish to use your imagination or how you apply it to your own experiences.
This also had the working title of 'Save Me', the idea being that it signified what the song was really about lyrically. But I thought that it gave away too much too soon and also, it was just a bit generic and self-defeating. I'd get all my song titles down to one word if I could!
- Hammy
