Tear Me Down Lyrics - Singles - Hedwig And The Angry Inch

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 devide 

Now I'm comin' 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 and 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 nothin' 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 try and tear me down? 

Come on and tear, come on and tear me down