Tear Me Down

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, 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 and tear me down

You want me, baby, I dare you, try and tear me down

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 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 to tear her down, but before you do, you must remember one thing

Hey

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

Enemies and adversaries, they try and tear me down

You want me, baby, I dare you, try and tear me down

From East Berlin to Junction City

Hello New York, hello Missouri

What? You trying to tear me down?

Come on and tear

Come on and tear me down