{"id":2836,"date":"2009-05-28T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T03:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2009-05-28T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T03:53:01","slug":"origin-of-love-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Origin of Love (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the earth was still flat,
\nAnd the clouds made of fire,
\nAnd mountains stretched up to the sky,
\nSometimes higher,
\nFolks roamed the earth
\nLike big rolling kegs.
\nThey had two sets of arms.
\nThey had two sets of legs.
\nThey had two faces peering
\nOut of one giant head
\nSo they could watch all around them
\nAs they talked; while they read.
\nAnd they never knew nothing of love.
\nIt was before the origin of love.<\/p>\n

The origin of love.<\/em><\/p>\n

And there were three sexes then,
\nOne that looked like two men
\nGlued up back to back,
\nCalled the children of the sun.
\nAnd similar in shape and girth
\nWere the children of the earth.
\nThey looked like two girls
\nRolled up in one.
\nAnd the children of the moon
\nWere like a fork shoved on a spoon.
\nThey were part sun, part earth
\nPart daughter, part son.<\/p>\n

The origin of love.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the gods grew quite scared
\nOf our strength and defiance
\nAnd Thor said,
\n“I’m gonna kill them all
\nWith my hammer,
\nLike I killed the giants.”
\nAnd Zeus said, “No,
\nYou better let me
\nUse my lightening, like scissors,
\nLike I cut the legs off the whales
\nAnd dinosaurs into lizards.”
\nThen he grabbed up some bolts
\nAnd he let out a laugh,
\nSaid, “I’ll split them right down the middle.
\nGonna cut them right up in half.”
\nAnd then storm clouds gathered above
\nInto great balls of fire<\/p>\n

And then fire shot down
\nFrom the sky in bolts
\nLike shining blades
\nOf a knife.
\nAnd it ripped
\nRight through the flesh
\nOf the children of the sun
\nAnd the moon
\nAnd the earth.
\nAnd some Indian god
\nSewed the wound up into a hole,
\nPulled it round to our belly
\nTo remind us of the price we pay.
\nAnd Osiris and the gods of the Nile
\nGathered up a big storm
\nTo blow a hurricane,
\nTo scatter us away,
\nIn a flood of wind and rain,
\nAnd a sea of tidal waves,
\nTo wash us all away,
\nAnd if we don’t behave
\nThey’ll cut us down again
\nAnd we’ll be hopping round on one foot
\nAnd looking through one eye.<\/p>\n

Last time I saw you
\nWe had just split in two.
\nYou were looking at me.
\nI was looking at you.
\nYou had a way so familiar,
\nBut I could not recognize,
\nCause you had blood on your face;
\nI had blood in my eyes.
\nBut I could swear by your expression
\nThat the pain down in your soul
\nWas the same as the one down in mine.
\nThat’s the pain,
\nCuts a straight line
\nDown through the heart;
\nWe called it love.
\nSo we wrapped our arms around each other,
\nTrying to shove ourselves back together.
\nWe were making love,
\nMaking love.
\nIt was a cold dark evening,
\nSuch a long time ago,
\nWhen by the mighty hand of Jove,
\nIt was the sad story
\nHow we became
\nLonely two-legged creatures,
\nIt’s the story of
\nThe origin of love.
\nThat’s the origin of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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