| 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
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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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| Well, now I’m coming for you
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| Enemies and adversaries
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| They try and tear me down
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| You want me, baby, I dare you
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| Well, try and tear me down
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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
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| Enemies and adversaries
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| They try and tear me down
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| You want me, baby, I dare you
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| Try and tear me down
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| On August 13th, 1961a wall was erected
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| Down the middle of the city of Berlin
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| The world was divided by a cold war
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| 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
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| And now that it’s gone we don’t know who we are anymore
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| Ladies and gentlemen, Hedwig is like that wall
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| Standing before you in the divide
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| Between East and West, slavery and freedom
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| Man and woman, top and bottom
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| And you can try to tear her down
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| But before you do, you must remember one thing
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| Hey, 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 nothing at all
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| Enemies and adversaries
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| They try and tear me down
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| You want me, baby, I dare you
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| Try and tear me down
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| Enemies and adversaries
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| They try and tear me down
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| You want me, baby, I dare you
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| Try and tear me down
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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 |