Gen Arts Festival - Culturama II
Wednesday, July 14^th, 1999 -  9pm
The Altman Building, NYC

starring Michael Cerveris, Stephen Trask, Cory
Waletzko, Tristan Avakian, David McKinley and Ted Liscinski.

Tear Me Down

I was born on the other side

Of a town ripped in two

I made it over the great divide

And now I'm calling 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 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,
you must remember one thing.

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.

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