The Origin Of Love Lyrics - Lena Hall

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." 

And 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 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 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. 

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