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When the earth was still flat, |
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And the clouds made of fire, |
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And mountains stretched up to the sky, |
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Sometimes higher, |
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Folks roamed the earth |
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Like big rolling kegs. |
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They had two sets of arms. |
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They had two sets of legs. |
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They had two faces peering out of one giant head |
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So they could watch all around them |
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As they talked; while they read. |
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And they never knew nothing of love. |
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It was before the origin of love. |
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The origin of love |
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And there were three sexes then, |
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One that looked like two men |
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Glued up back to back, |
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Called the children of the sun. |
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And similar in shape and girth |
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Were the children of the earth. |
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They looked like two girls rolled up in one. |
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And the children of the moon |
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Were like a fork shoved on a spoon. |
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They were part sun, part earth |
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Part daughter, part son. |
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The origin of love |
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Now the gods grew quite scared |
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Of our strength and defiance |
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And Thor said, |
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"I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer, |
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Like I killed the giants." |
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And Zeus said, "No, |
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You better let me |
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Use my lightening, like scissors, |
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Like I cut the legs off the whales |
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And dinosaurs into lizards." |
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Then he grabbed up some bolts |
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And he let out a laugh, |
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Said, "I'll split them right down the middle. |
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Gonna cut them right up in half." |
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And then storm clouds gathered above |
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Into great balls of fire |
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And then fire shot down |
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From the sky in bolts |
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Like shining blades of a knife. |
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And it ripped |
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Right through the flesh |
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Of the children of the sun |
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And the moon and the earth. |
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And some Indian god |
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Sewed the wound up into a hole, |
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Pulled it round to our belly |
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To remind us of the price we pay. |
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And Osiris and the gods of the Nile |
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Gathered up a big storm to blow a hurricane, |
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To scatter us away, |
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In a flood of wind and rain, |
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and a sea of tidal waves, |
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To wash us all away, |
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And if we don't behave |
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They'll cut us down again |
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And we'll be hopping round on one foot |
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And looking through one eye. |
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Last time I saw you |
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We had just split in two. |
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You were looking at me. |
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I was looking at you. |
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You had a way so familiar, |
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But I could not recognize, |
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Cause you had blood on your face; |
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I had blood in my eyes. |
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But I could swear by your expression |
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That the pain down in your soul |
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Was the same as the one down in mine. |
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That's the pain, |
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Cuts a straight line down through the heart; |
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We called it love. |
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So we wrapped our arms around each other, |
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Trying to shove ourselves back together. |
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We were making love, |
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Making love. |
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It was a cold dark evening, |
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Such a long time ago, |
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When by the mighty hand of Jove, |
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It was the sad story |
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How we became lonely two-legged creatures, |
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It's the story of |
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The origin of love. |
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That's the origin of love. |
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