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
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then, one of them looked like two men glued up back to back
Called the children of the sun
And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork stuck on a spoon
They were part sun part earth
Part daughter part son
Oh, oh, oh, the origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared of our strengh and defiance and Thor said I'm gonna
you'd better let me
Use my lightning like scissors
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards"
Then he grabbed up some bolts
And he let out a laugh
Said, "I'll split them right dowm the middle
Gonna cut 'em 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 to a hole
Pulled it around to our belly 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 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
and looking through one eye
Last time I saw you
We'd just split in two
You were looking at me
I was looking at you
And you had a way so familiar
I could not recognize
Cuz you had blood on your face
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 'round 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 of the origin of love
That's the origin of love
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