When the earth was still flat, and the clouds of fire And mountains stretched up to the sky, higher roamed the earth like big rolling kegs They had two sets of arms, two of legs
They had two faces out of one giant head And they watch all around them And they while they read And they never knew of love It was before the origin of love, of love
And there were three then One that looked like two men glued to back Called the of the sun And similar in shape and girth were the of the earth
They looked two girls rolled up in one And the children of the moon were a fork 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 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 bolts and he let out a laugh, said "I'll split them right to the middle Gonna rip them in half" And then storm clouds gathered above great balls of fire
And the shot down from the sky in bolts Like shining of a knife And it right through the flesh Of the children of the sun and the moon, and the
And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a Pulled it 'round to our To us of the price we pay And Osiris and the of the Nile
up a big storm to blow a hurricane To scatter us in a flood of wind and rain And a sea of tidal waves to wash us all And if we don't behave they'll cut us again And well be hopping round on one foot looking one eye
Last 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 down in your soul Was the same as the pain down in
the pain Cuts a straight line through the heart We call it So we our arms around each other
Trying to ourselves back together We making love It was a cold dark such a long time ago When by the mighty hand of
It was the sad How we became lonely creatures the story of the origin of love That's the of love, origin of love, origin of love