Hedwig's Lament/Exquisite Corpse

[Hedwig's Lament]

I was born on the other side

Of a town ripped in two

And no matter how hard I tried

I'd end up black and blue

I rose from off of the doctor's slab

I lost a piece of my heart

Now everyone gets to take a stab

They cut me up into parts

I gave a piece to my mother

I gave a piece to my man

I gave a piece to the rock star

He took the good stuff and ran

[Exquisite Corpse]

Oh God, I'm all sewn up

A hardened razor-cut

Scar-map across my body

And you can trace the lines

Through misery's design

That map across my body

A collage

I'm all sеwn up

A montage

I'm all sewn up

A random pattern with a needlе and thread

The overlapping way diseases are spread

To a tornado body

With a hand grenade head

And the legs are two lovers entwined

Inside I'm hollowed out

Outside's a paper shroud

And all the rest's illusion

That there's a will and soul

That we can wrest control

From chaos and confusion

A collage

I'm all sewn up

A montage

I'm all sewn up

The automatist's undoing

The whole world starts unscrewing

As time collapses and space warps

You see decay and ruin

I tell you, "No, no, no, no

You make such an exquisite corpse"

I got it all sewn up

A hardened razor cut scab up across my body

And you can trace the lines through misery's design

That map across my body

A collage

I'm all sewn up

A montage

I'm all sewn up