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

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The origin of love (The origin of love)

Now there was three sexes then

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back

They 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 shoved on a spoon

They was part sun, part Earth,

Part daughter, part son

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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 around to our bellies

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

A sea of tidal waves To wash us all away

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

And we'll be hopping around 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

Cause you had blood on your face 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 my mine

That's the pain It cuts a straight line

Down through the heart

We called it love

We wrapped our arms around each other

Tried to shove ourselves back together

We was 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 It's the story

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The origin of love

The origin of love