Origin of Love
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Lyrics of Origin of Love by Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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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, they had two sets of legs
They had two faces peering out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them as they talked, while they read
And they never knew nothing of love
It was before
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The origin of love
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Now there wes three sexes then
One that looked like two men glued up back to back
They called the children of the sun
And similar in shape and girth
Was the children of the earth
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
And the children of the moon
Was like a fork shoved on a spoon
They was part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son
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Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance and Thor said
"I'm gonna kill 'em all with my hammer like I killed the giants"
But Zeus said, "No, you better let me use my lightning, like scissors
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs into lizards"
And then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh, said, "I'll split them right down the middle
Gonna cut 'em right up in half"
And the storm clouds gathered above into great balls of fire
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And then 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 to a hole
Pulled it 'round to our belly to remind us of the price we pay
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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 don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping 'round on one foot
Looking through one eye
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The last time I saw you, we'd just split in two
You was looking at me, I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar, I could not recognize
'Cause you had blood on your face, 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 one down in mine
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That's the pain
Cuts a straight line down through the heart
We called it love
We wrapped our arms 'round each other
Trying to shove ourselves back together
We was making love, making love
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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
The story
The origin of love
That's the origin of love, oh yeah
The origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love
Writer(s): Stephen Trask
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Album • 2001 • 14 tracks
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Origin of Love
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