Hedwig
[Intro]
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Don't you know me Kansas city
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I'm the New Berlin wall
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Try and tear me down
[Verse]
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I was born on the other side
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Of a town ripped in two
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I made it over the great divide
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Now I'm comin' for you
[Chorus]
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Enemies and adversaries
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They try and tear me down
C7 F7
You want me baby, I dare you
Bb7 C7
Try and tear me down
[Bridge]
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[Verse]
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I rose from off of the doctor's slab
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Like Lazarus from the pit
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Now everyone wants to take a stab
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And decorate me with blood graffiti and spit
[Chorus]
C7 F7
Enemies and adversaries
Bb7 C7
They try and tear me down
C7 F7
You want me baby, I dare you
Bb7 C7
Try and tear me down
[Bridge]
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[Riff]
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[Spoken part]
N.C.
On August 13th, 1961
A wall was erected
Down the middle of the city of Berlin
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The world was divided by a cold war
And the Berlin wall
Was the most hated symbol of that divide
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Reviled, graffitied, spit upon
We thought the wall would stand forever.
And now that it's gone
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We don't know who we are anymore
Ladies and gentlemen
Hedwig is like that wall
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Standing before you in the divide
Between east and west
Slavery and freedom
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Man and woman, top and bottom
And you can try and tear her down
But before you do
N.C.
You must remember one thing
[Verse]
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Hey, there ain't much of a difference
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Between a bridge and a wall
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Without me right in the middle, babe
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You would be nothin' at all
[Chorus]
C7 F7
Enemies and adversaries
Bb7 C7
They try and tear me down
C7 F7
You want me baby, I dare you
Bb7 C7
Try and tear me down
C7 F7
Enemies and adversaries
Bb7 C7
They try and tear me down
C7 F7
You want me baby, I dare you
Bb7 C7
Try and tear me down
[ending]
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From east Berlin to junction city
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Hello New York hello Missouri
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What you try and tear me down?
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Come on and tear, come on and tear me down