作词 : Stephen Trask
作曲 : Stephen Trask
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell
Origin Of Love
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 origin of love
The origin of love
Now there were 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 folk shoved on a spoon
They was part sun part earth, part daughter part son
Ah...
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
But Zeus said
No, you better let me
Use my lightening like scissors
Like I cut the legs of the whales
Dinosaurs into lizards
And then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out and 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 shinning blades of a knife
And they 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 bellies
To remind us 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
And If we don’t behave
They will cut us down again
And we’ll be hopping around on one foot
And looking through one eye
(deny Me and be doomed)
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
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
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call 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
The story of the origin of love
That’s the origin of love
Oh, yeah
The origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love