Ladies and gentlemen,   whether you like or not   HEDWIG!      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      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,   remember one thing.      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      Enemies and adversaries   they try and tear me down   You want me, baby, I dare you   try and tear me down.