The Origin of Love

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

When the earth was still flat and the clouds made of fire

and the mountains stretched up to the sky, sometimes higher

folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs

they had two sets of arms

they had two sets of legs

they had two faces peering out of one giant head

so they could watch all around them as they talked while they read

and they never knew nothing of love

it was before the origin of love

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the origin of love

origin of love

Well there were three sexes then

one that looked like two men glued on back to back

they were the children of the sun

and similar in shape girth were the children of the earth

they looked like two girls rolled up in one

and the children of the moon was like a fork shoved on a spoon

they were part sun part earth part daughter part son

oh the origin of love

Well the gods grew quite scared of our strength and defiance

and thor said i’m gonna kill them all with my hammer

like i killed the giants

but zeus said no

you’d better let me use my lightning like scissors

like i cut the legs off the whales

dinosaurs into lizards

then he grabbed up some bolts, he let out a laugh

said i’ll split them right down the middle

gonna cut them right up in half

and then storm clouds gathered above into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts

like shining blades of a knife

and it ripped right through the flesh

of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth

and some indian god sewed the wound up to a hole

turned it ’round to our bellies to remind us the price we payed

and osiris, and the gods of the nile gathered up a big storm

to blow a hurricane

to scatter us away

a flood of wind and rain, a sea of tidal waves

to wash us all away

and if we don’t behave they’ll cut us down again

and we’ll be hopping ’round on one foot

looking through one eye

The last time i saw you we had just split in two

he was looking at me, i was looking at you

you had a way so familiar i could not recognize

cause you had blood on your face

and i had blood in my eyes

but i swear by your expression

that the pain down in your soul was the same

as the one down in mine

that’s the pain

that cuts a straight line down through the heart

we call it love

we wrapped our arms around each other

tried to shove ourselves back together

we were making love, making love

it was a cold dark evening such a long time ago

when by the mighty hand of jove

it was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures

the story, the origin of love

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oh yeah, the origin of love

the origin of love

the origin of love