Origin of Love

When the Earth was still flat

And clouds made of fire

And 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

oh

The origin of love (origin of love)

The origin of love (origin of love)

Now there was three sexes then

one that looked like two men glued up back-to-back

They called “the children of the Sun”

And similar in shape and girth was “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 was part-Sun

part-Earth

part-daughter

part-son

Pa-la-la-la

the origin of love

Now 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 better let me use my lightning like scissors

like I cut the legs off the whales

dinosaurs into lizards”

And 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 the 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 into a hole

Pulled it 'round to our bellies to remind us the price we paid

And Osiris and the gods of the Nile gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane

To scatter us away

In a flood of wind and rain

And 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 around on one foot

And looking through one eye

Last time I saw you

we just split in two

You 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

I had blood in my eyes

But I could 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

Trying to shove ourselves back together

We was 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

That story

the origin of love

that's the origin of love (oh yeah)

The origin of love

The origin of love

The origin of love…