[00:21.25]When the earth was still flat
[00:23.78]And the clouds made of fire
[00:26.64]And mountains stretched up to the sky
[00:30.55]Sometimes higher
[00:34.01]Folks roamed the earth
[00:36.30]Like big rolling kegs
[00:38.38]They had two sets of arms
[00:40.84]They had two sets of legs
[00:43.29]They had two faces peering
[00:46.35]Out of one giant head
[00:48.30]So they could watch all around them
[00:51.13]As they talked while they read
[00:53.47]And they never knew nothing of love
[00:57.86]It was before the origin of love
[01:05.41]The origin of love
[01:07.96]The origin of love
[01:10.49]The origin of love
[01:14.03]And there were three sexes then
[01:15.89]One that looked like two men
[01:18.27]Glued up back to back
[01:20.37]Called the children of the sun
[01:23.45]And similar in shape and girth
[01:25.98]Were the children of the earth
[01:28.45]They looked like two girls
[01:30.57]Rolled up in one
[01:33.60]And the children of the moon
[01:35.87]Were like a fork shoved on a spoon
[01:38.03]They were part sun, part earth
[01:40.18]Part daughter, part son
[01:47.42]The origin of love
[01:53.36]Now the gods grew quite scared
[01:55.60]Of our strength and defiance
[01:57.88]And Thor said
[01:59.20]'I'm gonna kill them all
[02:00.16]With my hammer
[02:02.27]Like I killed the giants.
[02:05.17]But Zeus said, 'No
[02:06.69]You better let me
[02:08.30]Use my lightening, like scissors
[02:10.74]Like I cut the legs off the whales
[02:13.37]And dinosaurs into lizards.
[02:15.73]Then he grabbed up some bolts
[02:18.49]And he let out a laugh
[02:20.35]Said, 'I'll split them right down the middle
[02:22.91]Gonna cut them right up in half.
[02:25.15]And then storm clouds gathered above
[02:29.30]Into great balls of fire
[02:39.61]And then fire shot down
[02:43.57]From the sky in bolts
[02:45.47]Like shining blades
[02:46.67]Of a knife
[02:49.08]And it ripped right through the flesh
[02:52.72]Of the children of the sun
[02:55.00]And the moon
[02:55.90]And the earth
[02:58.28]And some Indian god
[03:00.13]Sewed the wound up into a hole
[03:02.28]Pulled it round to our belly
[03:03.01]To remind us of the price we pay
[03:08.07]And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
[03:11.88]Gathered up a big storm
[03:14.45]To blow a hurricane
[03:16.86]To scatter us away
[03:18.95]In a flood of wind and rain
[03:21.44]And a sea of tidal waves
[03:23.78]To wash us all away
[03:26.19]And if we don't behave
[03:28.53]They'll cut us down again
[03:30.53]And we'll be hopping round on one foot
[03:33.61]And looking through one eye
[03:58.76]Last time I saw you
[04:01.40]We had just split in two
[04:03.42]You were looking at me
[04:05.45]I was looking at you
[04:07.79]You had a way so familiar
[04:10.96]I could not recognize
[04:12.75]Cause you had blood on your face
[04:15.24]I had blood in my eyes
[04:17.91]But I could swear by your expression
[04:20.13]That the pain down in your soul
[04:22.41]Was the same as the one down in mine
[04:26.19]oh~That's the pain
[04:29.06]Cuts a straight line
[04:31.05]Down through the heart
[04:33.19]We called it love
[04:36.09]we wrapped our arms around each other
[04:38.43]Trying to sew ourselves back together
[04:40.84]We were making love
[04:42.72]Making love
[04:45.31]It was a cold dark evening
[04:47.92]Such a long time ago
[04:49.90]When by the mighty hand of Jove
[04:54.55]It was the sad story
[04:56.57]How we became
[04:57.73]Lonely two-legged creatures
[04:59.91]It's the story of
[05:00.89]The origin of love
[05:02.69]That's the origin of love
[05:06.17]oh~yeah~The origin of love
[05:10.23]oh~oh~The origin of love
[05:14.95]love~love~love~The origin of love