Tear Me Down

[ladies and gentlemen,

Whether you like or not: hedwig!]

- don't you know me, kansas city?

I'm the new berlin wall!!

Try and tear me down!!!

I was born on the other side

Of a town ripped in two

I made it over the great divide

Now i'm coming for you

Enemies and adversaries

They try and tear me down

You want me, baby, i dare you

Try and tear me down

I rose from off of the doctor's lab

Like lazarus from the pit

Now everyone wants to take a stab

And decorate me

With blood graffiti and spit

Enemies and adversaries

They try and tear me down

You want me, baby, i dare you

Try and tear me down

On august 13th, 1961, a wall was erected down the

Middle of the city of berlin.

The world was divided by a cold war and the berlin wall

Was the most hated symbol of that divide.

Reviled. graffitied. spit upon.

We thought the wall would stand forever,

And now that it's gone we don't know who we are anymore.

Ladies and gentlemen, hedwig is like that wall,

Standing before you in the divide between

East and west,

Slavery and freedom,

Man and woman,

Top and bottom.

And you can try to tear her down.

But before you do, you must remember one thing!!

There ain't much of a difference

Between a bridge and a wall

Without me right in the middle, babe

You would be nothing at all

Enemies and adversaries

They try and tear me down

You want me, baby, i dare you

Try and tear me down.

- from east berlin to junction city

Hello new york, hello new salem

What? try and tear me down

Come on and tear me down