Intro:
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D5
When the earth was still flat
D5
And the clouds made of fire
A5
And mountains stretched up to the sky
G5
Sometimes higher
G5
Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs
D5
They had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs
F#5
They had two faces peering out of one giant head
E5
So they could watch all around them
A5
As they talked while they read
G5 A5 D5
And they never knew nothing of love
G5 A5 D5 G5
It was before the origin 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
D5 G5
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
A5
And the children of the moon
B5
Were like a fork stuck on a spoon
C#5
They were part sun part earth
A5
Part daughter part son
D5 G5 D5 G5
The origin of love
D5
Now the gods grew quite scared
D5
Of our strength and defiance
G5 G5
And Thor said, "I'm gonna kill 'em all with my hammer
G5 G5
Like I killed the giants."
G5
And Zeus said, "No, you'd better let me
D5
Use my lightning like scissors
D5 D5
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards
F#5
Then he grabbed up some bolts
G5
And he let out a laugh
E5
Said, "I'll split them right dowm the middle
A5
Gonna cut 'em right up in half."
G5 A5 D5
And the storm clouds gathered above
G5
Into great balls of fire
B5
And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts
G5
Like shining blades of a knife
B5
And it ripped right through the flesh
G5
Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth
B5
And some indian god sewed the wound up to a hole
G5
Pulled it around to our belly to remind us the price we paid
B5
And Osiris and the gods of the nile
G5
Gathered up a big storm
E5
To blow a hurricane
B5
To scatter us away
G5
In a flood of wind and rain
E5
And a sea of tidal waves
B5
To wash us all away
G5
And if we don't behave
E5
They'll cut us down again
Ab5 G5
And we'll be hopping 'round on one foot
D5 G5
and looking through one eye
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D5
Last time I saw you
B5
We'd just split in two
G5
You were looking at me
A5
I was looking at you
D5
And you had a way so familiar
B5
I could not recognize
G5
Cuz you had blood on your face
A5
I had blood in my eyes
D5
But I swear by your expression
B5
That the pain down in your soul
G5 A5
Was the same as the one down in mine
D5
That's the pain
B5 G5
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
A5
We call it love
D5
We wrapped our arms 'round each other
B5
Tried to shove ourselves back together
G5 A5
We were making love making love
D5 B5
It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago
G5 A5
When by the mighty hand of Jove
D5 B5
It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures
G5 A5
The story of the origin of love
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That's the origin of love
