Karaoké The Origin of Love Hedwig and the Angry Inch

When the Earth was still flat and the 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 around them as they talked, while they read

And they never knew nothing of love

It was before hmm, 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 we called the children of the sun

And similar in shape and girth was the children of the Earth

They looked like two girls rolled up in one

And the children of the moon were like a fork stuck on a spoon

They were part sun, part

Earth, part daughter, part son

Hmm, 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 but Zeus said no

You better let me use my lightning like scissors

Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs into lizards

And then he grabbed up some bolts 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 to a hole

Pulled it 'round to our bellies

To remind us the price we pay

And Osiris the gods of the Nile gathered up a big storm to blow a hurricane

To scatter us away in a flood of wind and rain

And a sea of tidal waves to wash us all away

If we don't behave they'll cut us down again

We'll be hopping round on one foot

And looking through one eye

Last time I saw you we just split in two

You was looking at me

I was looking at you, you

Had a way so familiar

I could not recognize

'Cos you had blood in your face, 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

Oh, that's the pain that cuts a straight line

Down through the heart we call it love

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 mighty hand of Jove

It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures

The story the origin of love

That's the origin of love the origin of love, oh

The origin of love love, love, love the origin of love