The Origin Of Love

[Intro]

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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 like big rolling kegs
          D
They had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs
          F#m                      G
They had two faces peering out of one giant head
             Em
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

                  Bm
And there were three sexes then, one of them looked like two men 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 were the children of the earth
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They looked like two girls rolled up in one
          A
And the children of the moon
             Bm
Were like a fork stuck on a spoon
               Em
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, "I'm gonna kill 'em all with my hammer
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Like I killed the giants."
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And Zeus said, "No, you'd better let me

Use my lightning like scissors
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Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards
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Then he grabbed up some bolts
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And he let out a laugh
                        Em
Said, "I'll split them right dowm the middle
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Gonna cut 'em right up in half."
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And the storm clouds gathered above
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Into great balls of fire

           Bm
And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts
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Like shining blades of a knife
          Bm
And it ripped right through the flesh
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Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth
               Bm
And some indian god sewed the wound up to a hole
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Pulled it around to our belly to remind us the price we paid
      Bm
And Osiris and the gods of the nile
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Gathered up a big storm
               Em
To blow a hurricane
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To scatter us away
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In a flood of wind and rain
                    Em
And a sea of tidal waves
                Bm
To wash us all away
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And if we don't behave
                     Em
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
      Bm
We'd just split in two
          G
You were looking at me
       A
I was looking at you
               D
And you had a way so familiar
   Bm
I could not recognize
             G
Cuz you had blood on your face
       A
I had blood in my eyes
       D
But I swear by your expression
          Bm
That the pain down in your soul
         G                       A
Was the same as the one down in mine
            D
That's the pain
             Bm                             G
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
            A
We call it love
                D
We wrapped our arms 'round each other
                Bm
Tried to shove ourselves back together
                G              A
We were making love   making love
          D                        Bm
It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago
             G              A
When by the mighty hand of Jove
          D                       Bm
It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures
     G                       A
The story of the origin of love
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That's the origin of love