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Trask Stephen |
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch (original cast) |
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TEAR ME DOWN |
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Ladies and gentlemen, |
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whether you like or not |
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HEDWIG! |
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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 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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On August 12, 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 to tear her down, |
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but before you do, |
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remember one thing. |
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Listen |
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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. |
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Song written by Stephen Trask |
