[00:02.99]Hedwig And The Angry Inch
[00:05.02]—The Origin Of Love—
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[00:18.39]When the earth was still flat,
[00:20.27]And the clouds made of fire,
[00:23.07]And mountains stretched up to the sky,
[00:26.58]Sometimes higher,
[00:30.97]Folks roamed the earth
[00:32.93]Like big rolling kegs.
[00:34.92]They had two sets of arms.
[00:37.39]They had two sets of legs.
[00:39.90]They had two faces peering
[00:42.97]Out of one giant head
[00:44.89]So they could watch all around them
[00:48.25]As they talked; while they read.
[00:49.91]And they never knew nothing of love.
[00:54.51]It was before the origin of love.
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[01:02.51]The origin of love
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[01:10.09]And there were three sexes then,
[01:12.09]One that looked like two men
[01:14.30]Glued up back to back,
[01:16.40]Called the children of the sun.
[01:19.78]And similar in shape and girth
[01:22.25]Were the children of the earth.
[01:24.80]They looked like two girls
[01:27.00]Rolled up in one.
[01:29.80]And the children of the moon
[01:32.21]Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
[01:34.11]They were part sun, part earth
[01:35.95]Part daughter, part son.
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[01:43.85]The origin of love
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[01:49.67]Now the gods grew quite scared
[01:51.58]Of our strength and defiance
[01:54.12]And Thor said,
[01:55.04]"I'm gonna kill them all
[01:56.31]With my hammer,
[01:57.68]Like I killed the giants."
[02:00.85]And Zeus said, "No,
[02:02.24]You better let me
[02:04.04]Use my lightening, like scissors,
[02:06.03]Like I cut the legs off the whales
[02:08.92]And dinosaurs into lizards."
[02:10.92]Then he grabbed up some bolts
[02:13.22]And he let out a laugh,
[02:15.61]Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
[02:17.94]Gonna cut them right up in half."
[02:20.50]And then storm clouds gathered above
[02:24.57]Into great balls of fire
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[02:34.78]And then fire shot down
[02:38.56]From the sky in bolts
[02:40.93]Like shining blades
[02:41.66]Of a knife.
[02:44.09]And it ripped
[02:46.04]Right through the flesh
[02:48.18]Of the children of the sun
[02:50.08]And the moon
[02:51.09]And the earth.
[02:53.02]And some Indian god
[02:55.15]Sewed the wound up into a hole,
[02:57.03]Pulled it round to our belly
[02:58.28]To remind us of the price we pay.
[03:02.82]And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
[03:06.73]Gathered up a big storm
[03:09.59]To blow a hurricane,
[03:11.74]To scatter us away,
[03:14.05]In a flood of wind and rain,
[03:16.39]And a sea of tidal waves,
[03:18.67]To wash us all away,
[03:21.57]And if we don't behave
[03:23.48]They'll cut us down again
[03:25.50]And we'll be hopping round on one foot
[03:28.69]And looking through one eye.
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[03:52.65]Last time I saw you
[03:54.85]We had just split in two.
[03:56.96]You were looking at me.
[03:59.03]I was looking at you.
[04:00.50]You had a way so familiar,
[04:03.92]But I could not recognize,
[04:05.62]Cause you had blood on your face;
[04:08.33]I had blood in my eyes.
[04:10.63]But I could swear by your expression
[04:12.70]That the pain down in your soul
[04:15.20]Was the same as the one down in mine.
[04:19.63]That's the pain,
[04:22.20]Cuts a straight line
[04:24.30]Down through the heart;
[04:26.45]We called it love.
[04:29.04]So we wrapped our arms around each other,
[04:31.26]Trying to shove ourselves back together.
[04:33.76]We were making love,
[04:35.76]Making love.
[04:38.37]It was a cold dark evening,
[04:40.89]Such a long time ago,
[04:42.90]When by the mighty hand of Jove,
[04:47.62]It was the sad story
[04:49.56]How we became
[04:50.69]Lonely two-legged creatures,
[04:52.82]It's the story of
[04:54.68]The origin of love.
[04:55.81]That's the origin of love.
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