Know Your Enemy
Released On
21st Century Breakdown15 MAY 2009
Single Released: 16 APR 2009
Know Your Enemy (single) [2009]
7" Vinyl Singles Box [2009]
God's Favorite Band [2017]
Welcome To My Panic [2021]
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool
Studio 880
Ocean Way Recording
Costa Mesa Studios
Jet Studios
Ocean Way Recording
Costa Mesa Studios
Jet Studios
Butch Vig, Green Day
507
2009-04-07
2026-02-06
Staple (80-100%)
Regular (50-79%)
Sporadic (20-49%)
Rare (1-19%)
Inactive (0%)
Performance Probability
94%
Odds of being played at the next showStaple
(Calculated from the last 100 shows)!For songs debuted recently, the percentage is calculated against total shows performed since the song's debut date rather than the full 100-show window.
Song Notes
It’s a rallying song. It's about liberating yourself from a lot of bullshit that you see on TV. It’s about the silence and the static and the era of contraband—trying to find the truth in all the noise.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Q Magazine)
It’s a rallying song. It's about liberating yourself from a lot of bullshit that you see on TV. It’s about the silence and the static and the era of contraband—trying to find the truth in all the noise.
Billie Joe Armstrong (Q Magazine)
Lyrics
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
Violence is an energy against the enemy
Well, violence is an energy, rah-eh!
Bringing on the fury, the choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
Overthrow the effigy, the vast majority
While burning down the foreman of control (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
And silence is an enemy against your urgency
So rally up the demons of your soul (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
The insurgency will rise
When the blood's been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes, say!
Oh-eh-oh-eh!
Oh-eh-oh-eh!
Well, violence is an energy (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
Well, from here to eternity (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
Well, violence is an energy (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
Well, silence is the enemy, so gimme, gimme revolution!
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy?
Well, gotta know the enemy, rah-eh!
(Do you know the enemy?)
Overthrow the effigy, the vast majority
(Well, gotta know the enemy!)
While burning down the foreman of control (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
(Do you know the enemy?)
Silence is an enemy, against your urgency
(Well, gotta know the enemy!)
So rally up the demons of your soul! (Oh-eh-oh-eh!)
