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The Enemy Within

Apr. 12, 19841 viewer6.4K views

The Enemy Within Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Things crawl in the darkness
That imagination spins
Needles at your nerve ends
Crawl like spiders on your skin
Pounding in your temples
And a surge of adrenaline
Every muscle tense to face the enemy within


[Chorus]
I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams

Experience to extremes, experience to extremes

[Verse 2]
Suspicious looking stranger
Flashes you a dangerous grin
Shadows across your window
Was it only trees in the wind?
Every breath a static charge
A tongue that tastes like tin
Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within

[Chorus]
I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams

Experience to extremes, experience to extremes
[Bridge]
To you, is it movement or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you...revolution or just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?
Yeah, you! It takes a little more persistence
To get up and go the distance

[Chorus]
I'm not giving in, I'm not missing out
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams

Experience to extremes
I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams

Experience to extremes, experience to extremes

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Part I of the “Fear” trilogy (which after 2002’s Vapor Trails, now has four parts)

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Credits
Recorded At
Le Studio, Morin Heights, QC, Canada
Release Date
April 12, 1984
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