I was born on the other side
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Of a town ripped in two
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I made it over the great divide
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Now I'm coming for you
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Enemies and adversaries
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They try and tear me down
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You want me baby, I dare you
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Try and tear me down
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I rose from off of the doctor's slab
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Like Lazarus from the pit
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Now everyone wants to take a stab
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And decorate me
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With blood, graffiti and spit
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Enemies and adversaries
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They try to tear me down
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You want me, baby, I dare you
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Try and tear me down
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On August 13, 1961,
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A wall was erected
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Down the middle of the city of Berlin
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The world was divided by a cold war
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And the Berlin Wall
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Was the most hated symbol of that divide
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Reviled, graffitied, spit upon
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We thought the wall would stand forever
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And now that it's gone
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We don't know who we are anymore
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Ladies and gentlemen
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Hedwig is like that wall
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Standing before you in the divide
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Between East and West
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Slavery and freedom
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Man and woman
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Top and bottom
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And you can try and tear her down
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But before you do
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You must remember one thing--Hed:
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There ain't much of a difference
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Between a bridge and a wall
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Without me right in the middle, babe
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You would be nothing at all
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Enemies and adversaries
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They try and tear me down
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You want me, baby, I dare you
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Try and tear me down
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Tear Me Down
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John Cameron Mitchell |