The Origin Of Love - Rufus Wainwright

[00:00.00] When the earth was still flat, and the clouds made of fire
[00:26.79]And mountains stretched up to the sky, sometimes higher
[00:34.17]Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs
[00:38.34]They had two sets of arms, two sets of legs
[00:43.26]They had two faces peering out of one giant head
[00:48.30]And they could watch all around them
[00:50.61]And they talked while they read
[00:52.86]And they never knew nothing of love
[00:57.69]It was before the origin of love, origin of love
[01:12.21]And there were three ***es then
[01:14.76]One that looked like two men glued back to back
[01:18.60]Called the children of the sun
[01:22.02]And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth
[01:26.85]They looked like two girls rolled up in one
[01:32.01]And the children of the moon were like a fork shoved on a spoon
[01:36.48]They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son
[01:45.93]Origin of love
[01:51.36]Now the gods grew quite scared of our strength and defiance
[01:55.80]And Thor said, " I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer
[02:00.63]Like I killed the giants " and Zeus said
[02:03.99]"No, you better let me use my lightning, like scissors
[02:08.16]Like I cut the legs off whales and dinosaurs into lizards"
[02:13.17]Then he grabbed up some bolts and he let out a laugh, said
[02:17.85]" I'll split them right down to the middle
[02:20.49]Gonna rip them right in half"
[02:23.16]And then storm clouds gathered above into great balls of fire
[02:37.14]And the fire shot down from the sky in bolts
[02:43.77]Like shining blades of a knife
[02:46.80]And it ripped right through the flesh
[02:50.55]Of the children of the sun and the moon, and the earth
[02:55.80]And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a hole
[03:00.12]Pulled it 'round to our belly
[03:01.29]To remind us of the price we pay
[03:06.12]And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
[03:10.08]Gathered up a big storm to blow a hurricane
[03:15.12]To scatter us away in a flood of wind and rain
[03:19.92]And a sea of tidal waves to wash us all away
[03:24.69]And if we don't behave they'll cut us down again
[03:29.46]And well be hopping round on one foot looking through one eye
[03:56.49]Last time I saw you, we had just split in two
[04:00.69]You were looking at me, and I was looking at you
[04:05.82]You had a way so familiar but I could not recognize
[04:10.41]'Cause you had blood on your face
[04:12.90]And I had blood in my eyes
[04:15.36]But I could swear by your expression
[04:18.06]That the pain down in your soul
[04:20.37]Was the same as the pain down in mine
[04:24.81]That's the pain
[04:27.39]Cuts a straight line down through the heart
[04:31.86]We call it love
[04:34.32]So we wrapped our arms around each other
[04:37.56]Trying to shove ourselves back together
[04:41.28]We were making love
[04:44.34]It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago
[04:49.17]When by the mighty hand of Jove
[04:54.12]It was the sad story
[04:56.22]How we became lonely two-legged creatures
[04:59.37]It's the story of the origin of love
[05:04.32]That's the origin of love, origin of love, origin of love