The Origin Of Love Lyrics

The Origin Of Love lyrics

When the earth was still flat, and the clouds made of fire 

And mountains stretched up to the sky, sometimes higher 

Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs 

They had two sets of arms, two sets of legs 

They had two faces peering out of one giant head 

And they could watch all around them 

And they talked while they read 

And they never knew nothing of love 

It was before the origin of love 

Origin of love 



And there were three sexes then 

One that looked like two men glued back to back 

Called the children of the sun 

And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth 

They looked like two girls rolled up in one 

And the children of the moon were like a fork shoved on a spoon 

They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son 

Origin of love 



Now the gods grew quite scared of our strength and defiance 

And Thor said: 

"I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer 

Like I killed the giants." 

And Zeus said: 

"No, you better let me use my lightning, like scissors 

Like I cut the legs off whales 

And dinosaurs into lizards." 

Then he grabbed up some bolts 

And he let out a laugh, said: 

"I'll split them right down to the middle 

Gonna rip them right in half." 

And then storm clouds gathered above 

Into great balls of fire 



And the fire shot down 

From the sky in bolts 

Like shining blades of a knife 

And it ripped right through the flesh 

Of the children of the sun 

And the moon, and the earth 

And some Indian god 

Sewed the wound up into a hole 

Pulled it 'round to our belly 

To remind us of the price we pay 

And Osiris and the gods of the Nile 

Gathered up a big storm 

To blow a hurricane 

To scatter us away 

In a flood of wind and rain 

And a sea of tidal waves 

To wash us all away 

And if we dont behave 

They'll cut us down again 

And well be hopping round on one foot 

Looking through one eye 



Last time I saw you 

We had just split in two 

You were looking at me, and I was looking at you 

You had a way so familiar 

But I could not recognize 

'Cause you had blood on your face 

And I had blood in my eyes 

But I could swear by your expression 

That the pain down in your soul 

Was the same as the pain down in mine 

That's the pain 

Cuts a straight line down through the heart 

We call it love 

So we wrapped our arms around each other 

Trying to shove ourselves back together 

We were making love 

It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago 

When by the mighty hand of Jove 

It was the sad story 

How we became lonely two-legged creatures 

It's the story of 

The origin of love 

That's the origin of love, origin of love, origin of love