Tear Me Down

John Cameron Mitchell

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

And 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

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 though 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 to tear her down

But before you do, you must remember one thing!



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