When the earth was flat, and the clouds made of fire And mountains up to the sky, sometimes higher Folks roamed the like big rolling kegs They had two sets of arms, two sets of
They had two faces peering out of one giant And they watch all around them And talked while they read And they never knew of love It was before the origin of love, of love
And were three sexes then One that looked like two men back to back Called the of the sun And similar in and girth were the children of the earth
They looked like two rolled up in one And the children of the moon like a fork shoved on a spoon They part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son of love
Now the gods quite scared of our strength and defiance And Thor said, "I'm gonna them all with my hammer Like I the giants" and Zeus said "No, you better let me use my lightning, scissors Like I cut the legs off whales and into lizards"
Then he grabbed up some and he let out a laugh, said "I'll split right down to the middle rip them right in half" And then storm clouds gathered above great balls of fire
And the fire shot down from the sky in Like shining of a knife And it ripped right the flesh Of the children of the sun and the moon, and the
And some Indian god sewed the wound up a hole Pulled it 'round to our To us of the price we pay And Osiris and the gods of the
Gathered up a big storm to a hurricane To scatter us in a flood of wind and rain And a sea of waves to wash us all away And if we don't behave they'll cut us down And well be round on one foot looking through one eye
Last time I saw you, we had just in two You looking at me, and I was looking at you You had a way so familiar but I not recognize you had blood on your face
And I had blood in my But I could swear by your That the pain down in your Was the same as the pain down in
That's the a straight line down through the heart We it love So we wrapped our arms around each
Trying to ourselves back together We were love It was a cold dark such a long time ago by the mighty hand of Jove
It was the sad How we lonely two-legged creatures It's the of the origin of love That's the origin of love, origin of love, of love