February 25, 2008 @ 02:44 PM
The Origin of Love
Posted by baboysai
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
And 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.
It was before the origin of Love.
And there were three sexes then.
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
They were called the children of the sun.
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
They looked like two girls rolled up in one.
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They were part sun, part earth,
part daughter, part son.
Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance.
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill 'em 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,
And dinosaurs into lizards."
Then he grabbed up some bolts,
And he let out a laugh, said,
"I'll split them right at the middle,
gonna cut them right up in half"
And then 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 up the wound into a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
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,
And a sea of tidal waves
to wash us all away.
And if we don't behave,
They'll cut us down again,
And we'll be hopping around on one foot,
Looking through one eye.
Last time I saw you,
We had just split in two.
You were looking at me,
I was looking at you.
You had a way so familiar
But I could not recognize,
'Coz you had blood on your face,
I 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 mine.
That's the pain,
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart,
We called it Love.
So we wrapped our arms around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves back together,
We were 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 was the story
of the origin of Love.
The Origin of Love is a song from the stage show Hedwig and the Angry Inch and subsequent film written by Stephen Trask. The song is based on a story from Plato's Symposium.
PS: I experienced my first car crash this Saturday. Thank your gods we were all safe. The world amazes me a lot.
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leni (guest)
yeah. i heard about the accident. buti walang major injuries.
inmomentum
baboysai
salamat nga pala kay wenna for making me hear this song.
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