The Origin Of Love
Rufus Wainwright

When the earth was still flat, and the 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, two sets of legs
They had two faces peering out of one giant head
And they could watch all around them
And they talked while they read
And they never knew nothing of love
It was before the origin of love
Origin of love

And there were three sexes then
One that looked like two men glued back to back
Called the children of the sun
And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
And the children of the moon were like a fork shoved on a spoon
They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son
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.
And Zeus said:
No, you better let me use my lightning, like scissors
Like I cut the legs off whales
And dinosaurs into lizards.
Then he grabbed up some bolts
And he let out a laugh, said:
I'll split them right down to the middle
Gonna rip them right in half.
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire

And the 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 into a hole
Pulled it 'round to our belly
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
And a sea of tidal waves
To wash us all away
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And well be hopping round on one foot
Looking through one eye

Last time I saw you
We had just split in two
You were looking at me, and I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar
But I could not recognize
'Cause you had blood on your face
And 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 pain down in mine
That's the pain
Cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it love
So we wrapped our arms around each other
Trying to shove ourselves back together
We were making love
It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago
When by the mighty hand of Jove
It was the sad story
How we became lonely two-legged creatures
It's the story of
The origin of love
That's the origin of love, origin of love, origin of love


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Peter Eyre)   Sonnet 20   Sonnet 20 (feat. Frally Hynes)   Sonnet 29   Sonnet 43   Sonnet 43   Sonnet 43 (feat. Siân Phillips)   Spotlight On Christmas   Superman   Swanee   Swanee [DVD]   Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40)   Th'Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame (Sonnet 1...   That Night   That's Entertainment   That's Entertainment!   The Art Teacher   The Art Teacher [DVD]   The Art Teacher [Live]   The Consort   The Maker Makes   The Man That Got Away   The Man That Got Away [DVD]   The Money Song   The One You Love   The Tower of Learning   This Love Affair   Tiergarten   Try Again [DVD][Live]   Tulsa   Two Gold Rings   Unperfect Actor (Sonnet 23)   Ups And Downs   Velvet Curtain Rag   Vibrate   Vibrate [DVD][Live]   Vicious World   Waiting For A Dream   Want   Welcome to the Ball   What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?   When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonn...   When Will I Be Loved   When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With Y...   Who Are You New York   Who Cares?   Who Cares? (as Long As You Care For Me)   Who Cares? 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