Hedwig And The Angry Inch Tear Me Down Lyrics

Tear Me Down Lyrics

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 to tear me down

You want me, baby, I dare
you

Try and tear me down



On August 13, 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 and tear
her down

But before you do

You must remember one thing--Hed:



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