When the Earth was still flat
And clouds made of fire
And mountains stretched up to the sky
Sometimes higher
Folks roamed the Earth
Like big rolling kegs
They had two sets of arms
They had two sets of legs
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked while they read
And they never knew nothing of love
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Now there was three sexes then
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back
They called the children of the sun
And similar in shape and girth
Was the children of the Earth
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one
And the children of the moon
Looked like a fork shoved on a spoon
They was part sun, part Earth,
Part daughter, part son
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Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
“I’m gonna kill them all with my hammer
Like I killed the giants”
But Zeus said,
"No, You better let me
Use my lightning like scissors
Like I cut the legs off the whales
Dinosaurs into lizards.”
And then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh
Said, “I’ll split them right down the middle
Gonna cut them right up in half.”
And the storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades Of a knife
And it ripped Right through
the flesh Of the children of the sun
And the moon And the earth
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up to a hole
Pulled around to our bellies
To remind us of the price we pay
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane
To scatter us away In a flood of wind and rain
A sea of tidal waves To wash us all away
If we don't behave They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping around on one foot
And looking through one eye
Last time I saw you
We just split in two
You was looking at me I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar,
I could not recognize
Cause you had blood on your face had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in my mine
That's the pain It cuts a straight line
Down through the heart
We called it love
We wrapped our arms around each other
Tried to shove ourselves back together
We was making love Making love
It was a cold dark evening
Such a long time ago
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
It was a sad story How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures It's the story
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The origin of love