Origin Of Love Lyrics - Singles - Hedwig And The Angry Inch

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 

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 that 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 shoved on a spoon 

They were part sun, part earth 

Part daughter, part son 

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 lightening, like scissors 

Like I cut the legs off the whales 

And dinosaurs into lizards.' 

Then he grabbed up some bolts 

And 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 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 we'll be hopping round on one foot 

And looking through one eye 

Last time I saw you 

We had just split in two 

You were looking at me 

I was looking at you 

You had a way so familiar 

But 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 

Cuts a straight line 

Down through the heart 

We called it love 

So we wrapped our arms around each other 

Trying to sew 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 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 

Random Number Generation 

All our feelings and thoughts 

Expressed in ones and in oughts 

In endless spiraling chains 

You can't decode or explain 

Cause you are so analog 

God dog I eye I god dog 

We're the random number generation 

We are random number generated 

We are random numbers 

In the regime of the solid state 

Wheels spin when you iterate 

K is x squared minus one 

But .54321 

When x is taken times two 

That's when we're coming for you 

We're the random number generation 

We are random number generated 

We are random numbers 

Mister Little started something huge 

Iggy Pop Iggy Stooge 

All the children shout out 

Hey here we are 

We're the random number generation 

We are random number generated 

We are random numbers