The Origin Of Love-Various Artists/Stephen Trask

[ti:The Origin Of Love (Lp Version)] [ar:Original Soundtrack] [al:Hedwig And The Angry Inch] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Origin Of Love - Stephen Trask [00:18.92]When the earth was still flat [00:20.20] [00:21.19]And clouds made of fire [00:23.02] [00:23.80]And mountains stretched up to the sky [00:26.50] [00:27.18]Sometimes higher [00:29.89] [00:31.62]Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs [00:35.31]They had two sets of arms [00:37.97]They had two sets of legs [00:40.52]They had two faces peering [00:43.03] [00:43.59]Out of one giant head [00:45.35]So they could watch all around them [00:48.05]As they talked while they read [00:50.37]And they never knew nothing of love [00:53.93] [00:55.28]It was before the origin of love [01:01.70] [01:02.67]The origin of love [01:04.06] [01:05.08]The origin of love [01:06.62] [01:07.39]The origin of love [01:08.48] [01:10.71]And there were three sexes then [01:12.65]One that looked like two men [01:14.90]Glued up back to back [01:17.20]Called the children of the sun [01:18.82] [01:20.25]And similiar in shape and girth [01:22.98]Was the children of the earth [01:25.12]They looked like two girls rolled up in one [01:29.04] [01:30.36]And the children of the moon [01:32.81]Were like a fork stuck on a spoon [01:34.96]They were part sun part earth part daughter part son [01:38.25] [01:44.69]The origin of love [01:45.73] [01:50.25]Now the gods grew quite scared [01:52.48]Of our strength and defiance [01:54.64]And thor said I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer [01:58.29]Like I killed the giants [01:59.63] [02:01.37]But the Zeus said no [02:02.75]You better let me use my lightning like scissors [02:06.44]Like I cut the legs off the whales [02:08.68] [02:09.45]Dinosaurs into lizards [02:11.58]Then he grabbed up some bolts [02:13.45] [02:14.44]And he let out a laugh [02:16.20]Said I'll split them right down the middle [02:18.57]Gonna cut them right up in half [02:21.03]And the storm clouds gathered above [02:24.09] [02:25.19]Into great balls of fire [02:26.97] [02:35.33]And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts [02:41.26]Like shining blades of a knife [02:43.14] [02:44.81]And it ripped right through the flesh [02:48.58]Of the children of the sun and the moon [02:51.67]And the earth [02:52.84] [02:53.66]And some Indian god sewed the wound up [02:56.81]Into a hole [02:57.75]Pulled it 'round to our bellies [02:59.08]To remind us the price we pay [03:01.61] [03:03.57]And Osiris and the gods of the Nile [03:06.88] [03:07.44]Gathered up a big storm [03:09.16] [03:10.28]To blow a hurricane [03:11.70] [03:12.43]To scatter us away [03:14.19] [03:14.86]In a flood of wind and rain [03:16.41] [03:17.16]And a sea of tidal waves [03:18.63] [03:19.64]To wash us all away [03:20.77] [03:21.77]And if we don't behave [03:23.33] [03:24.24]They'll cut us down again [03:25.50] [03:26.20]We’ll be hopping around on one foot [03:28.37] [03:29.48]And looking through one eye [03:31.58] [03:53.42]Last time I saw you [03:54.52] [03:55.35]We just split in two [03:56.59] [03:57.52]You was looking at me [03:58.53] [03:59.61]I was looking at you [04:01.20] [04:01.90]You had a way so familiar [04:04.11] [04:04.80]But I could not recognize [04:06.45]'Cause you had blood in your face [04:08.33] [04:08.91]And I had blood in my eyes [04:11.33]But I could swear by your expression [04:13.30]That the pain down in your soul [04:15.23] [04:15.85]Was the same as the one down in mine [04:18.91] [04:20.64]That's the pain [04:21.57] [04:22.83]That cuts a straight line down through the heart [04:25.85] [04:27.07]We call it love [04:28.04] [04:29.59]We wrapped our arms around each other [04:31.49]Trying to shove ourselves back together [04:34.38]We were making love [04:35.22] [04:36.28]Making love [04:37.38] [04:38.95]It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago [04:43.31]When by the mighty hand of Jove [04:46.53] [04:48.21]It was a sad story how we became [04:51.14]Lonely two legged creatures [04:53.32]It's the story [04:53.93] [04:54.46]The origin of love [04:55.82] [04:56.39]That's the origin of love [04:57.98] [04:59.70]Oh year the origin of love [05:02.83] [05:05.97]The origin of love [05:07.34] [05:10.58]The origin of love