Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Origin of Love, artist - Stephen Trask. Album song «Хедвиг и злосчастный дюйм», in the genre Музыка из фильмов
Date of issue: 28.06.2010
Record label: hybrid, Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
Origin of Love |
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 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 similar 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 lightening, 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 then 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 belly |
To remind us of 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, |
In 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 |
And we’ll be hopping round on one foot |
And looking through one eye. |
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 on 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. |
That’s the pain, |
Cuts a straight line |
Down through the heart; |
We called 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 mighty hand of Jove, |
It was the sad story |
How we became |
Lonely two-legged creatures, |
It’s the story of The origin of love. |
That’s the origin of love. |
Song written by Stephen Trask |