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I was born on the other side |
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Of a town ripped in two |
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I made it over the great divide |
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Now I'm coming for you |
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Enemies and adversaries |
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They try and tear me down |
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You want me baby, I dare you |
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Try and tear me down |
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I rose from off of the doctor's slab |
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Like Lazarus from the pit |
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Now everyone wants to take a stab |
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And decorate me |
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With blood, graffiti and spit |
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Enemies and adversaries |
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They try to tear me down |
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You want me, baby, I dare you |
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Try and tear me down |
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On August 13, 1961, |
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A wall was erected |
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Down the middle of the city of Berlin |
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The world was divided by a cold war |
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And the Berlin Wall |
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Was the most hated symbol of that divide |
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Reviled, graffitied, spit upon |
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We thought the wall would stand forever |
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And now that it's gone |
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We don't know who we are anymore |
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Ladies and gentlemen |
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Hedwig is like that wall |
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Standing before you in the divide |
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Between East and West |
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Slavery and freedom |
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Man and woman |
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Top and bottom |
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And you can try and tear her down |
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But before you do |
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You must remember one thing--Hed: |
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There ain't much of a difference |
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Between a bridge and a wall |
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Without me right in the middle, babe |
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You would be nothing at all |
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Enemies and adversaries |
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They try and tear me down |
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You want me, baby, I dare you |
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Try and tear me down |
