When the earth was still flat, and the clouds made of And stretched 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 out of one giant head And they could watch all around And they talked they read And they knew nothing of love It was the origin of love, origin of love
And there were three sexes 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 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 grew scared of our strength and defiance And said, "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer Like I the giants" and Zeus said "No, you let me use my lightning, like scissors I cut the legs off whales and dinosaurs into lizards"
Then he grabbed up some bolts and he let out a laugh, "I'll split right down to the middle Gonna rip them in half" And then storm gathered above into great balls of fire
And the fire shot down from the sky in Like shining of a knife And it right through the flesh Of the children of the sun and the moon, and the
And some god sewed the wound up into a hole it 'round to our belly To remind us of the we pay And Osiris and the of the Nile
Gathered up a big to blow a hurricane To scatter us away in a flood of wind and And a sea of tidal waves to us all away And if we don't they'll cut us down again And well be hopping round on one looking through one eye
Last I saw you, we had just split in two You were looking at me, and I was at you You had a way so familiar but I not recognize 'Cause you had on your face
And I had in my eyes But I could swear by expression That the pain down in soul Was the same as the down in mine
the pain Cuts a straight down through the heart We it love So we wrapped our arms each other
to shove ourselves back together We making love It was a cold dark evening a long time ago When by the mighty hand of
It was the sad How we became lonely two-legged the story of the origin of love That's the origin of love, origin of love, of love