"My Own Worst Enemy" is a song by the American alternative rock band Lit. It was released in March 1999 as the lead single from their second album, A Place in the Sun, released in 1999. The song spent eleven weeks at number 1 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and went on to become a staple in the band's live set. In addition, the song also crossed over to mainstream rock radio, hitting number 6 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song is featured in the 2012 movie American Reunion, although it is not featured on the original soundtrack of the movie, the video game Rock Band 2 and in the TV show Parks and Recreation which featured some of the characters playing the song on Rock Band 2. In 2014 American post-Hardcore band Get Scared covered the song on the album "punk goes 90's volume 2" which is put out by Fearless Records