Ladies and gentlemen,
whether you like or not
HEDWIG!
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 sla
like Lazarus from the pit
Now everyone wants to take a sta
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 12, 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,
remember one thing
Listen
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

Song written by Stephen Trask