Hedwig And The Angry Inch - Origin Of Love

When the earth was still flat and the clouds made of fireAnd mountains stretched up to the sky, sometimes higherFolks roamed the earth like big rolling kegsThey had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legsThey had two faces peering out of one giant headSo they could watch all around them as they talked, while they readAnd they never knew nothing of loveIt was before

The origin of love

Now there wes three sexes thenOne that looked like two men glued up back to backThey called the children of the sunAnd similar in shape and girthWas the children of the earthThey looked like two girls rolled up in oneAnd the children of the moonWas like a fork shoved on a spoonThey was part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son

The origin of love

Now the gods grew quite scaredOf 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 scissorsLike I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs into lizards"And then he grabbed up some boltsHe let out a laugh, said, "I'll split them right down the middleGonna cut 'em right up in half"And the storm clouds gathered above into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down from the sky in boltsLike shining blades of a knifeAnd it ripped right through the fleshOf the children of the sun and the moon and the earthAnd some Indian god sewed the wound up to a holePulled 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 stormTo blow a hurricane, to scatter us awayIn a flood of wind and rainAnd a sea of tidal wavesTo wash us all awayAnd if we don't behaveThey'll cut us down againAnd we'll be hopping 'round on one footLooking through one eye

The last time I saw you, we'd just split in twoYou was looking at me, I was looking at youYou had a way so familiar, I could not recognize'Cause you had blood on your face, I had blood in my eyesBut I could swear by your expressionThat the pain down in your soulWas the same as the one down in mine

That's the painCuts a straight line down through the heartWe called it loveWe wrapped our arms 'round each otherTrying to shove ourselves back togetherWe was making love, making love

It was a cold dark evening such a long time agoWhen by the mighty hand of JoveIt was the sad story, how we became lonely two-legged creaturesThe storyThe origin of loveThat's the origin of love, oh yeahThe origin of loveThe origin of loveThe origin of love