tear me down

don't you known me

riverdale? i'm the new berlin wall

baby. 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!

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 mr. honey

hello riverdale

what you try and tear me down?

come on and tear

come on and tear me down