Exquisite Corpse

Stephen Trask & John Cameron Mitchell * Track #10 On Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Original Cast Recording)

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Album Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Original Cast Recording)

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Stephen Trask

1999

Exquisite Corpse by Stephen Trask (Ft. John Cameron Mitchell)

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Stephen TraskJohn Cameron Mitchell

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“Exquisite Corpse” is a surrealist game in which players draw part of a picture and then fold the paper along the edge of the drawing so that the next player, who must continue those lines with their own drawing, cannot see what previous players drew. The result is a picture that, like Hedwig in “Ex...

Exquisite Corpse Lyrics

[Hedwig]
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
All sewn up
A montage
All sewn up

[Yitzhak]
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

[Hedwig]
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
All sewn up
A montage
All sewn up

[Hedwig & Yitzhak]
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"

[Hedwig]
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
All sewn up
A montage
All sewn up