The Origin Of Love

When the earth was still flat, and the 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, two sets of legs

They had two faces peering out of one giant head

And they could watch all around them

And they talked while they read

And they never knew nothing of love

It was before the origin of love, origin of love

And there were three ***es then

One that looked like two men glued 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 shoved on a spoon

They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son

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" and Zeus said

"No, you better let me use my lightning, like scissors

Like I cut the legs off whales and dinosaurs into lizards"

Then he grabbed up some bolts and he let out a laugh, said

"I'll split them right down to the middle

Gonna rip them right in half"

And then storm clouds gathered above into great balls of fire

And the 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 belly

To remind us of the price we pay

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 well be hopping round on one foot looking through one eye

Last time I saw you, we had just split in two

You were looking at me, and I was looking at you

You had a way so familiar but I could not recognize

'Cause you had blood on your face

And 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 pain down in mine

That's the pain

Cuts a straight line down through the heart

We call it love

So we wrapped our arms around each other

Trying to shove ourselves back together

We were making love

It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago

When by the mighty hand of Jove

It was the sad story

How we became lonely two-legged creatures

It's the story of the origin of love

That's the origin of love, origin of love, origin of love