Name: God's Enemies
Duration: P00H04M38S
Description: Lisa wrote this after working with a man whose health was wrecked by the Vietnam war. The video was directed by Pericles Lewnes in 1995 and filmed in Baltimore and Annapolis, MD. Special thanks to Webster Wright Jr. who kindly appeared as himself and shared his personal footage of time spent in Vietnam.

God's Enemies

from Muscle by Love Riot

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Lisa wrote this after working with a man whose health was wrecked by the Vietnam war. The video was directed by Pericles Lewnes in 1995 and filmed in Baltimore and Annapolis, MD. Special thanks to Webster Wright Jr. who kindly appeared as himself and shared his personal footage of time spent in Vietnam.

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It doesn't take a hero to walk down that road
It just takes your heart and what you believe.
Now the truth makes you angry when it comes to your country -
you've got some questions for powers that be
and you say:

I tried hard to see the way it should be -
I used to care about God's Enemies.
But look what's left me -
it's not the way it should be and I don't want to fight God's Enemies anymore.

Three crying babies that you can't even feed,
but they say in the next life you'll find relief.
When you look for answers
you find heads shake and backs turn.
You've got your problems but aren't you free to say:

I tried hard to see the way it should be -
I used to care about God's Enemies.
But look what's left me -
it's not the way it should be and I don't want to fight God's Enemies anymore.

Don't tell me what's good or bad -
I gave up every chance I had to be happy...
to be happy...for you.

credits

from Muscle, track released March 25, 1995
Words - Lisa Mathews
Music - Love Riot

vocals, electric guitar - Lisa Mathews
acoustic guitar - Mikel Gehl
violin, mandolin - Willem Elsevier
bass - Mark Evanko

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Love Riot Baltimore, Maryland

Formed in Baltimore in 1994 by singer Lisa Mathews and guitarist Mikel Gehl, Love Riot came to epitomize the sweet and sophisticated pop sounds emanating from countless mix format radio stations in the 1990s. While the band persistently flirted with success in that genre through well-placed television exposure and constant performances, they went on an indefinite sabbatical in 1999. - J. Duffy ... more

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