Origin Of Love - Stephen Trask

[00:37.38]When the earth was still flat,
[00:40.31]And the clouds made of fire,
[00:43.22]And mountains stretched up to the sky,
[00:46.70]Sometimes higher,
[00:52.18]Folks roamed the earth
[00:54.78]Like big rolling kegs.
[00:56.82]They had two sets of arms.
[00:59.42]They had two sets of legs.
[01:02.04]They had two faces peering out of one giant head
[01:07.24]So they could watch all around them
[01:10.39]As they talked; while they read.
[01:12.70]And they never knew nothing of love.
[01:16.93]It was before the origin of love.
[01:27.66]The origin of love
[01:33.30]And there were three ***es then,
[01:35.90]One that looked like two men
[01:38.03]Glued up back to back,
[01:40.11]Called the children of the sun.
[01:43.23]And similar in shape and girth
[01:45.82]Were the children of the earth.
[01:48.14]They looked like two girls rolled up in one.
[01:53.40]And the children of the moon
[01:55.64]Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
[01:58.21]They were part sun, part earth
[02:00.09]Part daughter, part son.
[02:07.99]The origin of love
[02:14.23]Now the gods grew quite scared
[02:16.56]Of our strength and defiance
[02:18.89]And Thor said,
[02:20.10]"I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer,
[02:22.75]Like I killed the giants."
[02:26.26]And Zeus said, "No,
[02:27.90]You better let me
[02:29.95]Use my lightening, like scissors,
[02:32.04]Like I cut the legs off the whales
[02:35.03]And dinosaurs into lizards."
[02:37.23]Then he grabbed up some bolts
[02:40.14]And he let out a laugh,
[02:42.34]Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
[02:44.60]Gonna cut them right up in half."
[02:47.27]And then storm clouds gathered above
[02:51.21]Into great balls of fire
[03:01.92]And then fire shot down
[03:05.83]From the sky in bolts
[03:08.07]Like shining blades of a knife.
[03:11.59]And it ripped
[03:13.67]Right through the flesh
[03:15.73]Of the children of the sun
[03:17.96]And the moon and the earth.
[03:21.08]And some Indian god
[03:22.95]Sewed the wound up into a hole,
[03:25.08]Pulled it round to our belly
[03:26.42]To remind us of the price we pay.
[03:31.26]And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
[03:35.06]Gathered up a big storm to blow a hurricane,
[03:38.29]To scatter us away,
[03:42.55]In a flood of wind and rain,
[03:45.30]and a sea of tidal waves,
[03:47.70]To wash us all away,
[03:50.30]And if we don't behave
[03:52.72]They'll cut us down again
[03:54.52]And we'll be hopping round on one foot
[03:58.02]And looking through one eye.
[04:22.41]Last time I saw you
[04:24.98]We had just split in two.
[04:27.16]You were looking at me.
[04:28.93]I was looking at you.
[04:31.61]You had a way so familiar,
[04:34.30]But I could not recognize,
[04:35.93]Cause you had blood on your face;
[04:38.54]I had blood in my eyes.
[04:40.98]But I could swear by your expression
[04:43.16]That the pain down in your soul
[04:45.39]Was the same as the one down in mine.
[04:49.88]That's the pain,
[04:52.13]Cuts a straight line down through the heart;
[04:56.16]We called it love.
[04:59.38]So we wrapped our arms around each other,
[05:03.10]Trying to shove ourselves back together.
[05:04.22]We were making love,
[05:06.57]Making love.
[05:08.89]It was a cold dark evening,
[05:11.64]Such a long time ago,
[05:13.37]When by the mighty hand of Jove,
[05:17.97]It was the sad story
[05:20.16]How we became lonely two-legged creatures,
[05:23.48]It's the story of
[05:24.93]The origin of love.
[05:26.98]That's the origin of love.
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