[HEDWIG, spoken]
Don't you know me? I'm the new Berlin Wall baby!
Try and tear me down!

[HEDWIG, sung]
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

[HEDWIG with ENSEMBLE]
Enemies and

[HEDWIG]
Adversaries

[HEDWIG with ENSEMBLE]
They try and tear me down
You want me, baby, I dare you
Try and tear me down

[ENSEMBLE]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

[HEDWIG]
I rose from off of the doctor's slab
Like Lazarus from the pit
Now everyone wanna take a stab
And decorate me
With blood, graffiti and spit, ptuh!
[HEDWIG with ENSEMBLE]
Enemies and

[HEDWIG]
Adversaries

[HEDWIG with ENSEMBLE]
They try and tear me down
You want me, baby, I dare you
Try and tear me down

[ENSEMBLE]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

[YITZHAK, spoken]
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, but 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!

[HEDWIG]
Listen, 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

[HEDWIG & YITZHAK with ENSEMBLE]
Enemies and
[HEDWIG]
Adversaries

[HEDWIG & YITZHAK with ENSEMBLE]
They try and tear me down
You want me, baby, I dare you
Try and tear me down
Enemies and

[HEDWIG & YITZHAK]
Adversaries

[HEDWIG & YITZHAK with ENSEMBLE]
Oh, they try and tear me down
You want me, baby, I dare you
Try and tear me down

(spoken)
From East Berlin to Junction City
Hello New York! Hello New Jersey!
What? You wanna try and tear me down?

(sung)
Come on and tear

[YITZHAK]
Come on and tear
[HEDWIG]
Come on and tear me down!