The origin of love

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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 
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They had two sets of arms, 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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The origin of love 
 
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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 
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And the children of the moon 
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Were like a fork stuck 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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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 
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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 
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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 
 
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And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts 
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Like shining blades of a knife 
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And it ripped right through the flesh 
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Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth 
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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 
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And Osiris and the gods of the nile 
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Gathered up a big storm 
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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'd 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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And you had a way so familiar 
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I could not recognize 
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Cuz you had blood on your face 
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I had blood in my eyes 
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But I 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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That cuts a straight line down through the heart 
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We call it love 
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We wrapped our arms 'round each other 
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Tried to shove ourselves back together 
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We were making love   making love 
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It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago 
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When by the mighty hand of Jove 
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It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures 
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The story of the origin of love 
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That's the origin of love