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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."
