When the earth was still flat, and the clouds made of And mountains stretched up to the sky, sometimes Folks roamed the earth like big kegs had two sets of arms, two sets of legs
They had two faces out of one giant head And they could watch all them And they talked they read And they never knew nothing of It was before the of love, origin of love
And there were sexes then One that looked like two men glued back to the children of the sun And similar in shape and girth the children of the earth
They looked like two girls up in one And the children of the moon were like a fork on a spoon They were part sun, earth, part daughter, part son Origin of
Now the grew quite scared of our strength and defiance And Thor said, "I'm gonna kill all with my hammer Like I the giants" and Zeus said "No, you better let me use my lightning, like Like I cut the off whales and dinosaurs into lizards"
Then he grabbed up some bolts and he let out a laugh, "I'll split them right to the middle Gonna rip them in half" And then storm clouds gathered above into great of fire
And the fire down from the sky in bolts Like shining blades of a And it ripped through the flesh Of the children of the sun and the moon, and the
And some Indian god 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 storm to blow a To scatter us away in a flood of wind and 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 but I could not recognize 'Cause you had blood on your
And I had blood in my But I could swear by expression That the pain down in your Was the same as the down in mine
That's the a straight line down through the heart We it love So we wrapped our arms each other
to shove ourselves back together We were making It was a cold dark evening such a long ago by the mighty hand of Jove
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