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Song Lyrics

Tear me Down

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
Now I'm coming for you

Chorus

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

Chorus

Enemies and adversaries
They try and tear me down
You want me baby I dare you
Try and tear me down

On August 13, 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, graffiti'd, 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 a 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!

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

Chorus (2x)

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 wanna try
And tear me down?
Come on and tear me down

Origin of Love

When the earth was still flat
And the clouds made of fire
And mountains streched up to the sky
Sometimes higher
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs
They had two sets of arms
They had two sets of legs
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked while they read
And they never knew nothing of love
It was before, the Origin of Love

The Origin of Love (3x)

Now there was three sexes then
One that looked like two men
Glued up back-to-back
They called the Children of the Sun
And similar in shape and girth
Was the Children of the Earth
They looked like
Two girls rolled up in one
And the Children of the Moon
Looked like a fork shoved on a spoon
They was part sun, part earth,
Part daughter, part son

The Origin of Love

Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all with
My hammer,
Like I killed the giants"
But Zeus said,
"No, you better let me
Use my lightning like scissors
Like I cut the legs off the whales
Dinosaurs into lizards"
And then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh
Said, "I'll split them
Right down the middle
Gonna cut them right up in half"
And the storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades of a knife
And it ripped right through the flesh
Of the Children of the Sun
And the Moon and the Earth
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up to a hole
Pulled it around our bellies
To remind us the price we pay
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane
To scatter us away
In a flood of wind and rain
A sea of tidal waves
To wash us all away
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
We'll be hoping around on one foot
And looking through one eye

The last time I saw you
We'd just split in two
You was looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way so familar
I could not recognize
Cause you had blood on your face
I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine
That's the pain
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it Love
We wrapped our arms around each other
Tried to shove ourselves back together
We was making Love
Making Love

It was a cold dark evening
Such a long time ago
When, by the mighty hand of Jove
It was a sad story how we became
Lonely two-legged creatures
The story the Origin of Love
That's the Origin of Love
Oh yeah

The Origin of Love (3x)

Sugar Daddy

I've got a sweet tooh
For licorice drops and jelly rolls
Hey, Sugar Daddy
Hansel needs some sugar in his bowl
I'll lay out fine china on the linen
Polish up the chrome
If you got some sugar for me
Sugar Daddy bring it home

Oh, the thrill of control
Like the rush of rock and roll
It's the sweetest taste I've known
If you've got some sugar bring it home

Looks like we've got some
Sugar Daddies in the house

When honey bees go shopping
It's something to be seen

You could give me a cavity, honey

They swarm to wild flowers
Get nectar for the queen

I bet you could fill that cavity, sweetie

And everything you bring me
Got me dripping like a honeycomb
If you got some sugar for me
Sugar Daddy bring it home

It's a car wash
Ladies and gentlemen

Whoa, the thrill of control
Like a blitzkrieg on a roll
It's the sweetest taste I've known
If you got some sugar,
Bring it home
Come on Sugar Daddy bring it home

Angry Inch

My sex change operation got botched
My guardian angel fell asleep on the watch
Now all I've got is a Barbie doll crotch
I've got an angry inch

Six inches forward and five inches back
I've got a-
I've got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I've got a-
I've got an angry inch

I'm from the land where
You still hear the cries
I had to get out,
Had to sever all ties
I changed my name and assumed a disguise
I got an angry inch

Six inches forward and five inches back
I've got a-
I've got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I've got a-
I've got an angry inch

Six inches forward and five inches back
The train is coming and I'm tied to the track
I try to get up I can't get no slack
I got an angry inch angry inch

My mother made my tits out of clay
My boyfriend told me that he'd take me away
He dragged me to the doctor one day
I've got an angry inch

Six inches forward and five inches back
I've got a-
I've got an angry inch
Six inches forward and five inches back
I've got a-
I've got an angry inch

Long story short
Yeah, long story short
When I woke up from the operation,
I was bleeding down there
I was bleeding from the gash between my legs
It's my first day as a woman,
Already it's that time of the month
But two days later the hole closed up
The wound healed and I was left
With a one inch mound of flesh
Where my penis used to be
Where my vagina never was
It was a one-inch mound of flesh
With a scar running down it like
A sideways grimmace of an eyeless face
It was just a little bulge
It was an angry inch

Six inches forward and five inches back
The train is coming and I'm tied to the track
I try to get up I can't get no slack
I got an angry inch angry inch

Six inches forward five inches back
Stay undercover till the night turns to black
I got my inch I'm set to attack
I got an angry inch angry inch

Six inches forward five inches back
Stay undercover till the night turns to black
I got my inch I'm set to attack
I got an angry inch angry inch

Six inches forward and five inches back
The train is coming and I'm tied to the track
I try to get up I can't get no slack
I got an angry inch angry inch

Wig in a Box

On nights like this
When the world's a bit amiss
And the lights go down across the trailer park
I get down
I feel had
Feel on the verge of going mad
Then it's time to punch the clock

I put on some make-up
Turn on the tape deck
And put the wig back on my head
Suddenly, I'm Miss Midwest Midnight
Checkout Queen
Untill I head home
And I put myself to bed

I look back on where I'm from
Look at the woman I've become
And the strangest things seem
Suddenly routine
I look up from my Vermouth on the rocks
A gift-wrapped wig still in the box
Of towering velvetine

I put on some make-up
Some LaVern Baker
And pull the wig down from the shelf
Suddenly, I'm Miss Behive 1963
Until I wake up and I turn back to myself

Some girls they got natural ease
They wear it any way they please
With their french tip curls
And perfume magazines
Wear it up, let it down
This is the best way that I found
To be the best you've ever seen

I put on some make-up
Turn on the 8-track
I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf
Suddenly, I'm Miss Farrah Fawcett from TV
Until I wake up and I turn back to myself

Shag, bi-level, bob, Dorothy Hamill do
Sausage curls, chicken wings
It's all because of you
With your blow-dried feather back
Toni home wave too
Flip, 'fro, frizz, flop
It's all because of you
It's all because of you
It's all because of you

Ok, everybody
I put on some make-up
Turn on the 8-track
I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf
Suddenly, I'm this punk rock star
Of stage and screen
And I ain't never
I'm never turning back

Wicked Little Town (Hedwig Version)

You know the sun is in your eyes
And hurricanes and rains
And black and cloudy skies
You're running up and down that hill
You turn it on and off at will
There's nothing here to thrill or bring you down

Chorus

And if you've got no other choice
You know you can follow my voice
Through the dark turns and noise
Of this Wicked Little Town

(Kwahng-Yi solo)

The fates are vicious and they're cruel
You learn too late you've used
Two wishes like a fool
And then you're someone you are not
And Junction City ain't the spot
Remember Mrs. Lot and
When she turned around

Chorus

And if you've got no other choice
You know you can follow my voice
Through the dark turns and noise
Of this Wicked Little Town

Hedwig's Lament/Exquisite Corpse

I was born on the other side
Of a town ripped in two
And no matter how hard I try
I end up black and blue
I rose from off of the doctor's slab
I lost a piece of my heart
Now everyone gets to take a stab
They cut me up into parts
I gave a piece to my mother
I gave a piece to my man
I gave a piece to the rock star
He took the good stuff and ran

Oh God I'm all sewn up
A hardened razor cut
Scar map across my body
And you can trace the lines
Through misery's designs
That map across my body

Chorus

A collage all sewn up
A montage I'm all sewn up

A random pattern with a
Needle and thread
The overlapping way diseases are spread
To a tornado body with a hand grenade head
And the legs are two lovers entwined

Inside I'm hollowed out
Outside's a paper shroud
And all the rest's illusion
That there's a will and a soul
That we can wrest control
From all the chaos and confusion

Chorus

A collage all sewn up
A montage I'm all sewn up

Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis Version)

Forgive me for I did not know
'Cause I was just a boy
You were so much more

Than any God could ever plan
More than a woman, or a man
Now I understand
How much I took from you

That when everything starts breaking down
You take the pieces off the ground
And show this Wicked Town
Something beautiful and new

You think that luck has left you there
But maybe there's nothing
Up in the sky but air

And there's no mystical design
No cosmic lover, pre-assigned
There's nothing you can find
That can not be found

Cause with all the changes you've been through
It seems the stranger's always you
Alone again in some new Wicked Little Town

And when you've got no other choice
You know you can follow my voice
Through the dark turns and noise
Of this Wicked Little Town

It's a Wicked Little Town

Goodbye Wicked Little Town

Midnight Radio

Rain falls hard burns dry
A dream or a song
That hits you so hard
Filling you up
And suddenly gone

Breathe feel love give free
Know in your soul
Like your blood knows the way
From your heart to your brain
Knows that you're whole

And you're shinning
Like the brightest star
A transmission on the Midnight Radio
And you're spinning like a 45
Ballerina dancing to your rock and roll

Here's to Patti and Tina
And Yoko, Aretha
And Nona and Nico
And me
And all the strange rock and rollers
You know you're doing all right
So hold on to each other
You gotta hold on tonight

And you're shining like the brightest stars
A transmission on the Midnight Radio
And you're spinning your new 45s
All the misfits and the losers
Well you know you're rock and rollers
Spinning to your rock and roll

Lift up your hands...

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