The Vynyl Club
September 21^st, 1999
Hollywood, California


starring Michael Cerveris, John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor,
Stephen Trask,  Stone Temple Pilots

The Origin of Love - real audio

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





The origin of love

The origin of love

The origin of love....

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