Whole song is just 3 chords, verse and chorus are the same. Bridge is slightly different. 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 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 D 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