The Long Grift

The Long Grift

Infobox Song
Name = The Long Grift


Artist = John Cameron Mitchell
Album = Hedwig and the Angry Inch Original Cast Album
Released = 1999
track_no = 8
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Cast recording
Length =
Writer = Stephen Trask
Label = Atlantic
Producer =
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"The Long Grift" is a song from the off-Broadway musical, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and its subsequent film adaptation. It was composed by Stephen Trask and performed by John Cameron Mitchell as the character Hedwig.

The song is sung as a first-person ballad by Hedwig who accuses her former lover (Tommy Gnosis) of grifting her, singing: "I didn't want to know that your cool, seductive serenade // Is a tool of your trade, you gigolo"." Hedwig concludes by deprecating the entirety of their love, singing "The love that had me in your grip // was just a long, long grift."


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