Stephen Trask Tear Me Down
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 Well now I'm coming for you
Chorus:
Enemies and adversaries they try and tear me down You want me, baby, I dare you Try and tear me down
Hedwig:
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
Chorus:
Enemies and adversaries they try and tear me down You want me, baby, I dare you Try and tear me down
Yitzhak:
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 Gentleman, 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! Hey.
Hedwig:
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
Chorus:
Enemies and adversaries they try and tear me down You want me, baby, I dare you try and tear me down.
Enemies and adversaries they try and tear me down You want me, baby, I dare you try and tear me down.
Hedwig:
From East Berlin to Junction City. Hello, New York. Hello, Missouri. What? Try and tear me down?
Come on and tear... Come on and tear... me down.
