When the was still flat, and the clouds made of fire And mountains up to the sky, sometimes higher Folks roamed the earth big rolling kegs They had two of arms, two sets of legs
had two faces peering out of one giant head And they could watch all them And they 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 glued to back the children of the sun And similar in shape and girth the children of the earth
looked like two girls rolled up in one And the children of the moon were like a shoved on a spoon were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son Origin of
Now the gods grew quite of our strength and defiance And Thor said, "I'm gonna them all with my hammer Like I killed the giants" and Zeus "No, you better let me use my lightning, scissors Like I cut the legs off whales and into lizards"
Then he grabbed up some bolts and he let out a laugh, "I'll split them right to the middle Gonna rip right in half" And then storm gathered above into great balls of fire
And the fire shot down the sky in bolts Like shining blades of a And it right through the flesh Of the of the sun and the moon, and the earth
And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a it 'round to our belly To remind us of the we pay And Osiris and the gods of the
Gathered up a big storm to a hurricane To scatter us away in a of wind and rain And a sea of tidal to wash us all away And if we behave they'll cut us down again And well be hopping on one foot looking through one eye
time I saw you, we had just split in two You looking at me, and I was looking at you You had a way so familiar but I could not 'Cause you had on your face
And I had in my eyes But I could swear by your That the pain down in your Was the same as the down in mine
That's the Cuts a straight down through the heart We call it So we wrapped our arms each other
Trying to shove back together We were love It was a dark evening such a long time ago When by the mighty of Jove
It was the sad How we became two-legged creatures It's the of the origin of love That's the origin of love, origin of love, origin of