The Origin Of Love

Song The Origin Of Love
Artist Stephen Trask
Album Hedwig And The Angry Inch: Original Cast Recording (Original Cast)

Lyrics

[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.
[01:01.33]
[01:02.51] The origin of love
[01:04.58]
[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.
[01:38.68]
[01:43.85] The origin of love
[01:45.48]
[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
[02:28.39]
[02:34.14]
[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.
[03:32.08]
[03:41.53]
[03:49.96]
[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.
[04:59.35]
[05:00.23]

Pinyin

[00:02.99] Hedwig And The Angry Inch
[00:05.02] The Origin Of Love
[00:06.83]
[00:08.80]
[00:09.90]
[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.
[01:01.33]
[01:02.51] The origin of love
[01:04.58]
[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.
[01:38.68]
[01:43.85] The origin of love
[01:45.48]
[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
[02:28.39]
[02:34.14]
[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.
[03:32.08]
[03:41.53]
[03:49.96]
[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 twolegged 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.
[04:59.35]
[05:00.23]