D
When the earth was still flat
D/B
And the clouds made of fire
Aadd9
And mountains stretched up to the sky
G
Sometimes higher
G
Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs
D
They had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs
F#m
They had two faces peering out of one giant head
Em
So they could watch all around them
A
As they talked while they read
GAD
And they never knew nothing of love
GADG
It was before the origin of love
DG
The origin of love
Bm
And there were three sexes then, one of them looked like two men glued up back to back
G
Called the children of the sun
D
And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth
DG
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
A
And the children of the moon
Bm
Were like a fork stuck on a spoon
C#m
They were part sun part earth
A
Part daughter part son
DGDG
The origin of love
D
Now the gods grew quite scared
D/B
Of our strength and defiance
GG
And Thor said, 'I'm gonna kill 'em all with my hammer
GG
Like I killed the giants.'
G
And Zeus said, 'No, you'd better let me
D
Use my lightning like scissors
DD
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards
F#m
Then he grabbed up some bolts
G
And he let out a laugh
Em
Said, 'I'll split them right dowm the middle
A
Gonna cut 'em right up in half.'
GAD
And the storm clouds gathered above
G
Into great balls of fire
Bm
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 to a hole
G
Pulled it around to our belly to remind us the price we paid
Bm
And Osiris and the gods of the nile
G
Gathered up a big storm
Em
To blow a hurricane
Bm
To scatter us away
G
In a flood of wind and rain
Em
And a sea of tidal waves
Bm
To wash us all away
G
And if we don't behave
Em
They'll cut us down again
AbG
And we'll be hopping 'round on one foot
DG
and looking through one eye
DEm
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Last time I saw you
Bm
We'd just split in two
G
You were looking at me
A
I was looking at you
D
And you had a way so familiar
Bm
I could not recognize
G
Cuz you had blood on your face
A
I had blood in my eyes
D
But I swear by your expression
Bm
That the pain down in your soul
GA
Was the same as the one down in mine
D
That's the pain
BmG
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
A
We call it love
D
We wrapped our arms 'round each other
Bm
Tried to shove ourselves back together
GA
We were making love making love
DBm
It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago
GA
When by the mighty hand of Jove
DBm
It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures
GA
The story of the origin of love
DGDGDG...
That's the origin of love