When the earth was flat, and the clouds made of fire And mountains stretched up to the sky, higher 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 around And they talked while they And they never knew of love It was before the origin of love, of love
And there were sexes then One that like two men glued back to back the children of the sun And similar in shape and girth the children of the earth
They looked like two rolled up in one And the of the moon were like a fork shoved on a spoon They part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son Origin of
Now the gods grew quite scared of our and defiance And Thor said, "I'm kill them all with my hammer I killed the giants" and Zeus said "No, you let me use my lightning, like scissors Like I cut the legs off whales and into lizards"
Then he up some bolts and he let out a laugh, said "I'll them right down to the middle Gonna rip them in half" And then clouds gathered above into great balls of fire
And the fire shot from the sky in bolts Like blades of a knife 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 Pulled it 'round to our To remind us of the we pay And and the gods of the Nile
up a big storm to blow a hurricane To scatter us away in a flood of and rain And a sea of tidal to wash us all away And if we don't behave they'll cut us down And well be hopping round on one foot looking one eye
Last time I saw you, we had just 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 blood in my But I could swear by expression That the down in your soul Was the as the pain down in mine
the pain Cuts a straight down through the heart We it love So we our arms around each other
Trying to ourselves back together We were making It was a cold evening such a long time ago When by the mighty hand of
It was the sad How we became lonely creatures It's the of the origin of love That's the origin of love, origin of love, origin of