Gen Arts Festival - Culturama II
Wednesday, July 14^th, 1999 -  9pm
The Altman Building, NYC

starring Michael Cerveris, Stephen Trask, Cory
Waletzko, Tristan Avakian, David McKinley and Ted Liscinski.


The Origin of Love








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

they had two sets of legs

They had two faces peering 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

The origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love




Now there was three sexes

and one that looked like two men

glued up back to back

they called the children of the sun



And similar in strength and girth

was the children of the earth

looked liked two girls rolled up in one

and the children of the moon

looked like a fork stuck on a spoon

it was part sun, part earth,

part daughter, part son



The origin of love

Now the Gods grew quite scared
of our strength and defiance
And Thor said, I'm going to kill them
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
and Dinosaurs into lizards




Then he grabbed up some bolts
and he let out a laugh
Said. "I'll split them right down the middle and
cut them right up in half
And the storm clouds gathered above
in great balls of fire

oh shit


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 the wound up into a hole
pulled around to our bellies
to remind us of the price we paid

And Osirus 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
the sea of tidal waves
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

and looking through one eye

The last time I saw you

We'd just split in two

You were looking at me

and I was looking at you

You had a way so familiar
I could not recognize
coz you had blood on your face
and 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 that cuts straight line
down to the heart

We call it love

So we wrapped our arms around each other
tried to shove ourselves back together


It was making love

Making love


It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago

when the mighty hand of Jove...

it was a sad story
how we became
lonely  two legged creatures

It's the story of the Origin of Love

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