"The last thing that people want to do when they're listening to a record is have to look up words in a fucking dictionary," says guitarist Jeremy Popoff. "There are a lot of bands that have amazing lyricists- where the lead singers are like poets and run around jotting down their observations in little notebooks all day long- but that ain't Lit, man. We just write about what we know- cars, relationships, and Vegas."

Popoff, whose love of gambling is matched only by his admiration for Iron Maiden, recalls that, like the vast majority of the tracks on the band's new album, A Place In The Sun (RCA), "Enemy" was hammered out in the pace of one or two band practices. "I know that this is songwriter's cliché," he admits, "but the best songs are always the ones that get done the fastest. One day I came up with the riff and we hammered out the verses, and a few days later, the chorus pretty much just wrote itself."

When Lit tested out the as-yet-unrecorded song on a live audience, it quickly became obvious that "Enemy" had that "special something." And while Popoff credits some of the song's success to its universal lyrics, he is quick to point out that, without a killer hook, words can take a song only so far. "The thing that makes a song kick ass is the hook," he says, "I don't give a fuck if someone is singing in Chinese; if it has that hook- that particular melody complementing a chord change in just the right way- then it's going to give me goose bumps."