“Angry Inch” is the titular track from the musical and film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and one of the more heavily story-based songs on the record.

In the film, Hedwig undergoes a sex reassignment surgery at the behest of her mother, so that she can marry an American G.I. and go over the Berlin Wall into America (“To be free, one must give up a little part of one’s self”). The surgery doesn’t go well, as the physicians start the procedure without really finishing it. Hence Hedwig is left without any sort of complete genitalia…