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 slab

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 to tear me down

You want me, baby, I dare you

Try and tear me down

On August 13, 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 and tear her down

But before you do

You must remember one thing--Hed:

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