Listen, I was born on the other side   Just always looking to you   I made it over the great divide   Now I'm coming for you      Your forces lined up in battle   Your soldiers and your machines   The sun been blacked out by shadows   The darkest hour now you've ever seen      And I'm easy and I'm serious   They try and tear me down   You want me baby I dare you   Try and tear me down      I rose up on the doctor's slab   Like Lazarus from the pit   And everyone wants to take a stab   Decorate me, blood, graffiti and spit      I've been held up on money   I've been beaten out of spite   You want a piece of me honey   Lose or win, you know you've been in a fight      And I'm easy and I'm serious   They try and tear me down   You want me baby I dare you   Try and tear me down      On march 6th, 1836 the walls of the Alamo fell to the Mexican army   After a 12 day siege the troops of Santa Ana were victorious   But too exhausted to hold on and the Texans won the war   It's further from El Paso to Texarkana, then from New York to Chicago   And when it joined the union Texas was the biggest state      Yeah, everything from Texas is big, larger than life   And none bigger than little Marvin Aday   So big, his daddy called him Meat Loaf, he grew into a big man   With a big voice and he sings big songs and has big hits   You can try and tear him down      Now there ain't much difference   Between a bridge and a wall   Without me right in the middle, baby   You'll be nothing at all      And I'm easy and I'm serious   They try and tear me down   You want me baby, I dare you   Try and tear me down      And I'm easy and I'm serious   They try and tear me down   You want me baby, I dare you   Oh, try and tear me down      Oh, oh, come on try and tear me down