When the earth was still flat

And 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 the origin of love

The origin of love



And there were three sexes then,

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back

Called the children of the sun

And similiar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth

They looked like two girls rolled up in one

And the children of the moon

Were like a fork shoved on a spoon

They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son

The origin of love



Now the gods grew quite scared

Of our strength and defiance

And Thor said "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer

Like I killed the giants"

And Zeus said "No

You better let me use my lightning like scissors

Like I cut the legs off the whales

And dinosaurs into lizards"

Then he grabbed up some bolts

And he let out a laugh

Said "I'll split them right down the middle

Gonna cut them right up in half"

And the storm clouds gathered above

Into great balls of fire.



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

Into a hole

Pulled it 'round to our bellies

To remind us the price we pay

And Osiris and the gods of the nile

Gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane

To scatter us away

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

We'll be walking around on one foot

And looking through one eye



The last time I saw you

We had just split in two

You were looking at me

I was looking at you

You had a way so familiar

But I could not recognize

'cause you had blood in your face

And 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

That's the pain

That cuts a straight line down through the heart

We call it love

So we wrapped our arms around each other

Trying to shove ourselves back together

We were making love

Making love

It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago

When by the might hand of Jove

It was a sad story how we became

Lonely two-legged creatures

It's the story

The origin of love

That's the origin of love