Tear Me Down

Song Tear Me Down
Artist Stephen Trask
Album Hedwig And The Angry Inch: Original Cast Recording (Original Cast)

Lyrics

[00:06.02] Don't you know me Kansas City,
[00:07.81] I'm the new Berlin wall
[00:10.44] Try and tear me down.
[00:12.31]
[00:13.20] I was born on the other side
[00:16.22] of a town ripped in two
[00:19.66] I made it over the great divide
[00:23.24] now I'm coming for you
[00:24.93]
[00:25.68] Enemies and adversaries
[00:29.97] they try and tear me down
[00:33.32] You want me, baby, I dare you
[00:37.00] Try and tear me down
[00:39.33]
[01:00.98] I rose from off of the doctor's slab
[01:04.37] like Lazarus from the pit
[01:07.71] Now everyone wants to take a stab
[01:09.83] and decorate me
[01:11.16] with blood graffiti and spit
[01:12.64]
[01:13.62] Enemies and adversaries
[01:17.82] they try and tear me down
[01:21.43] You want me, baby, I dare you
[01:24.89] Try and tear me down.
[01:26.72]
[01:50.08] On August 13th, 1961,
[01:52.76] a wall was erected
[01:53.94] down the middle of the city of Berlin.
[01:56.68] The world was divided by a cold war
[01:59.35] and the Berlin Wall
[02:00.40] was the most hated symbol of that divide
[02:03.34] Reviled. Graffitied. Spit upon.
[02:06.78] We thought the wall would stand forever,
[02:09.61] and now that it's gone,
[02:11.16] we don't know who we are anymore.
[02:13.89] Ladies and Gentlemen,
[02:15.27] Hedwig is like that wall,
[02:17.89] standing before you in the divide
[02:19.74] between East and West,
[02:21.69] Slavery and Freedom,
[02:23.68] Man and Woman,
[02:25.05] Top and Bottom.
[02:27.43] And you can try to tear her down,
[02:30.06] but before you do,
[02:31.40] you must remember one thing.
[02:32.67]
[02:36.94] There ain't much of a difference
[02:40.30] between a bridge and a wall
[02:43.70] Without me right in the middle, babe
[02:46.70] you would be nothing at all.
[02:48.78]
[02:49.65] Enemies and adversaries
[02:54.03] they try and tear me down
[02:57.24] You want me, baby, I dare you
[03:00.75] try and tear me down.
[03:03.00]
[03:03.36] Enemies and adversaries
[03:07.46] they try and tear me down
[03:11.06] You want me, baby, I dare you
[03:14.56] try and tear me down
[03:16.50]