"The Origin of Love" by Hedwig and the Angry Inch (from the movie)
Tabbed by Aaron (it's acoustic)
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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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The 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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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 that 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 shoved 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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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 them all with my hammer,
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Like I killed the giants."
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And Zeus said, "No,you better let me
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Use my lightening, 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 down the middle.
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Gonna cut 'em right up in half."
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And then 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
G
Like shining blades of a knife.
Bm
And it ripped right through the flesh
G
Of the children of the sun And the moon And the earth.
Bm
And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a hole
G
Pulled it round to our belly to remind us of the price we pay.
Bm
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
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Gathered up a big storm
Em
To blow a hurricane,
Bm
To scatter us away,
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In a flood of wind and rain,
Em
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
Bm
We had 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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You had a way so familiar,
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But I could not recognize,
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'Cause 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
Bm
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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Cuts a straight line down through the heart;
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We call it love.
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We wrapped our arms around each other,
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Trying to shove ourselves back together.
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We were making love,
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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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It's the story of the origin of love.
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That's the origin of love.
