Hedwig's Lament; Exquisite Corpse

I was born on the other side
of a town ripped in two
And no matter how hard I've tried
I 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.

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 sewn up
A montage
I'm All sewn up.

A random pattern with a needle and thread
The overlapping way diseases are spread
Through 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've got it 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 sewn up
A montage
I'm All sewn up.