"The Origin of Love" Hedwig & the Angry Inch
01/30/2004 01:49 a.m.
I love this story/song about the origin of love. For anyone who might be interested it's rather a beautiful portrayal and so I thought I'd share (if you haven't heard it):

When the Earth was still flat
And the clouds made of fire
And the 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.

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
Was the Children of the Earth
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one

And the children of the moon
Looked like a fork stuck on a spoon
They was part Sun part Earth
Part Daughter part Sun!

Oooh….the origin of love

And the Gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance and
Thor said, "I'm gonna kill 'em all with my
hammer...like I killed the giants"

But Zeus said "No...you'd better let me use my lightning
Like scissors, like I cut the legs of the whales...
Dinosaurs into lizards"

And then he grabbed up some bolts,
He let out a laugh
Said "I'll split 'em right down the middle,
gonna cut 'em right down 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 from a knife!

And it ripped right through the flesh
of the children of the
Sun and the Moon and the Earth…

And so mending God
Sewed the wound up to a hole
Pulled around to our belly to
Remind us of the price we paid

Then Osiris and the Gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane
To scare us away
A flood of wind and rain
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 hoppin' round on one foot
And lookin' through one eye!

The last time I saw you
We'd just split in two
You was lookin' at me
I was lookin' at you

You had a way so familiar
I could not recognize cause
You had blood on your face
I had blood in my eyes

But I could tell 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

We put our arms around each other
Tried to SHOVE our SELVES
BACK TOGETHER!

We was MAKING LOVE...MAKING LOVE

It was a cold dark evening
Such a long time ago
And by the mighty
Hand of Jove

It’s a sad story how we became lonely two legged creatures….but that…

That’s the origin of love.



Oh yeah! Gotta love it! Hahahaha


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