Origin of Hedwig - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

When I was a child

I wanted to go wild,

And so rock got me alive

My dreams could survive.

A new life began for me,

But I had to leave a piece of mine.

What was there in my mind

To cut myself in two halves?

What’s the meaning of life

When something misses to death?

Lost in a body and an inch

Am I a bit from one of each?

When I was a beauty queer

I fell in love with a sweet dear,

We shared millions of stars

So bright in our eyes,

He was my Adam in Heaven

I took him to sky Seven.

He stole away my soul

And left me with a hole.

And here I am now,

Lost again, full of pain,

In my body and an inch

With only anger to stitch.

Broken pieces,

Freaks and wigs,

Hidden in colours,

Shining with failures.

The origin is love

A grift from above,

Two exquisite parts

That couldn’t stay apart.

In this wicked little town

I turned the radio down,

Walked away through a breach

With my body and an inch.