The Origin of Love chords by Lena Hall

SimplifiedG · Em · Dsus4 · C · Bm …

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G
Em
Dsus4
C
Bm
Am
D
E
F#m
A
C#dim

Intro 1

Dsus4

When the earth was still flat,

Verse 1
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Em 
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And the clouds made of fire,
Dsus4 
And mountains    stretched up to the sky,
C 
Sometimes higher,
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs.
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They had two sets of arms.
They had two sets of legs.
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They had two faces peering
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Out of one giant head
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Am 
So they could watch all around them
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As they talked; while they read.
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And they never knew nothing of love.
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It was before the origin of love.
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The origin of love
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And there were three sexes then,
One that looked like two men
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Glued up back to back,
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Called the children of the sun.
Em 
And similar  in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
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They looked like two girls
C 
Rolled up in one.
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And the children of the moon
Em 
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
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They were part sun   , part earth
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Part daughter, part son.
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The origin of love
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Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
Dsus4 
"I'm gonna kill them all
C 
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants."
And Zeus said, "No,
You better let me
Use my lightening, like scissors,
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Like I cut the legs  off the whales
And dinosaurs into lizards."
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Then he grabbed up some bolts
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And he let out a laugh,
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Said, "I'll split them right
down the middle.
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Gonna cut them right    up in half."
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And then storm clouds gathered above
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Into great balls of fire
Em 
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
C 
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
Em 
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
C 
Of the children of the sun
And the moon
And the earth.
And some Indian god
Em 
Sewed the wound up into a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
C 
To remind us of the price we pay.
Em 
And Osiris and the
gods of the Nile
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Gathered up a big storm
A 
To blow a hurricane,
Em 
To scatter us away,
C 
In a flood of wind and rain,
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And a sea of tidal waves,
Em 
To wash us all away,
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And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
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And we'll be hop      ping
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round on one foot
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And looking through one eye.
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Last time I saw you
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We had just split in two.
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You were looking at me.
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I was looking at you.
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You had a way so familiar,
Em 
But I could not recognize,
C 
Cause you had blood on your face;
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I had blood in my eyes.
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But I could swear by your expression
Em 
That the pain down in your soul
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Was the same as the one
D 
down in mine.
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That's the pain,
Em 
Cuts a straight line
C 
Down through the heart;
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We called it love.
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So we wrapped our arms
around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves
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back together.
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We were making love,
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Making love.
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It was a cold dark evening,
Em 
Such a long time ago,
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When by the mighty hand of Jove,
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It was the sad story
How we became
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Lonely two- legged creatures,
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It's the story of
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The origin of love.
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That's the origin of love.