When the earth was flat, and the clouds made of fire And stretched up to the sky, sometimes higher Folks roamed the earth like big rolling They had two sets of arms, two sets of
They had two faces peering out of one head And they could all around them And they talked while read And they never knew nothing of It was before the of love, origin of love
And there were sexes then One that like two men glued back to back Called the of the sun And similar in and girth were the children of the earth
They like two girls rolled up in one And the children of the moon were like a fork on a spoon They part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son Origin of
Now the gods grew quite of our strength and defiance And said, "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer Like I the giants" and Zeus said "No, you better let me use my lightning, like Like I cut the legs off whales and dinosaurs lizards"
he grabbed up some bolts and he let out a laugh, said "I'll split them right to the middle Gonna rip right in half" And then storm clouds gathered above into balls of fire
And the fire shot from the sky in bolts Like shining of a knife And it right through the flesh Of the children of the sun and the moon, and the
And some Indian god sewed the up into a hole Pulled it to our belly To remind us of the we pay And Osiris and the of the Nile
up a big storm to blow a hurricane To scatter us away in a flood of wind and And a sea of tidal waves to us all away And if we don't behave they'll cut us again And well be round on one foot looking through one eye
Last I saw you, we had just split in two You were at me, and I was looking at you You had a way so familiar but I could not 'Cause you had on your face
And I had blood in my But I could swear by your That the pain down in soul Was the same as the pain down in
the pain Cuts a straight line down through the We call it So we wrapped our arms around other
Trying to shove back together We making love It was a cold dark such a long time ago When by the mighty of Jove
It was the sad How we became lonely creatures It's the story of the origin of the origin of love, origin of love, origin of love