歌词与中文翻译
When the earth was still flat
当地球仍是平地
And the clouds made of fire
当火仍是云彩
And mountains stretched up to the sky
山峰高耸入云
Sometimes higher
或是更高
Folks roamed the earth
人们漫步在地面上
Like big rolling kegs
宛如旋转的大桶
They had two sets of arms
他们长有四臂
They had two sets of legs
生有四腿
They had two faces peering
巨大的头颅
Out of one giant head
拥有双面
So they could watch all around them
所以他们可以眼观八方
As they talked while they read
一边阅读一遍谈话
And they never knew nothing of love
而他们却从不知晓爱情
It was before the origin of love
因为这爱之起源尚未出现
The origin of love
爱之起源
The origin of love
爱之起源
The origin of love
爱之起源
And there were three ***es then
那是人拥有三种性别
One that looked like two men
一种状如两个男人
Glued up back to back
双背相连
Called the children of the sun
那是太阳之子
And similar in shape and girth
与之相似的
Were the children of the earth
叫做大地之女
They looked like two girls
状如两个女人
Rolled up in one
蜷缩在一起
And the children of the moon
而那月之子女
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon
状如餐叉和汤匙的结合
They were part sun, part earth
一半属于太阳一半属于月亮
Part daughter, part son
半女，半男
The origin of love
爱之起源
Now the gods grew quite scared
而天神惶恐于
Of our strength and defiance
我们的力量和抗争
And Thor said
然后雷神说道
'I'm gonna kill them all
我可以砸死他们
With my hammer
用我的巨锤
Like I killed the giants.
'如同当初杀死巨人
But Zeus said, 'No
但宙斯阻止道：不
You better let me
让我来
Use my lightening, like scissors
用我剪刀般的闪电
Like I cut the legs off the whales
如截去鲸鱼的双腿
And dinosaurs into lizards.
'将恐龙变成蜥蜴那样
Then he grabbed up some bolts
于是他抓起闪电
And he let out a laugh
大笑道：
Said, 'I'll split them right down the middle
我要将他们从中间撕裂
Gonna cut them right up in half.
'一分为二
And then storm clouds gathered above
于是云层翻滚
Into great balls of fire
化为火球
And then fire shot down
而那火球，变成闪电
From the sky in bolts
划过天空
Like shining blades
尤如闪耀的
Of a knife
利刃
And it ripped right through the flesh
将肉身撕裂开来
Of the children of the sun
将太阳之子
And the moon
月亮之子
And the earth
还有大地之女分离开来
And some Indian god
而某位印度神明
Sewed the wound up into a hole
将伤口缝合成孔
Pulled around to our belly
拉扯于腹部
To remind us the price we paid
用已警示其付出的代价
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
而奥斯里斯和尼罗河的神明
Gathered up a big storm
呼风唤雨
To blow a hurricane
引来飓风
To scatter us away
将我们吹散
In a flood of wind and rain
历经风吹雨打
a sea of tidal waves
经受潮起潮落
To wash us all away
将我们冲向远方
And if we don't behave
倘若在不守规矩
They'll cut us down again
他们将再次撕裂我们
we'll be hopping round on one foot
那时我们只能单腿跳跃
And looking through one eye
用孤独的一只眼睛看
Last time I saw you
上次相见
We’d just split in two
我们刚被分离
You were looking at me
你凝视着我
I was looking at you
我凝视着你
You had a way so familiar
你看起来如此熟悉
I could not recognize
而我却认不出来
Cause you had blood on your face
因为你脸上挂着血迹
I had blood in my eyes
我眼里也布满血迹
But I could swear by your expression
但透过神情我看得出
That the pain down in your soul
你我灵魂经受的苦楚
Was the same as the one down in mine
如出一辙
oh~That's the pain
那痛苦
That cuts a straight line
来自于那道
Down through the heart
切心之痛
We called it love
我们称之为”爱“
we wrapped our arms around each other
我们拥抱对方
Trying to shove ourselves back together
试图融合
We were making love
所以我们做爱
Making love
做爱
It was a cold dark evening
那许久之前
Such a long time ago
冰冷漫长的夜晚
When by the mighty hand of Jove
那只象征爱情的手
It was a sad story
酿造了我们之间的悲剧
How we became
我们为何成为了
Lonely two-legged creatures
孤独的双腿生物
It's the story of
而这故事
The origin of love
便是爱之起源
That's the origin of love
便是爱之起源
oh~yeah~The origin of love
哦耶~这便是爱之起源
oh~oh~The origin of love
哦~哦~便是爱之起源
love~love~love~The origin of love
爱~爱~爱~这便是爱之起源