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 delight   Now I'm comin' 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 and tear her down   But before you do   You must remember one thing      Hey, there ain't much of a difference   Between a bridge and a wall   Without me right in the middle, babe   You would be nothin' 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 New York hello Missouri   What you try and tear me down?   Come on and tear, come on and tear me down