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Neil Patrick Harris - The Origin of Love (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) [Official Audio]
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Stephen Trask
Stephen Trask
Keyboards
David McKinley
David McKinley
Percussion
Chris Weilding
Chris Weilding
Guitar
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell
Vocals
Miriam Shor
Miriam Shor
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Stephen Trask
Stephen Trask
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Reto Peter
Reto Peter
Assistant Engineer
Emily Lazar
Emily Lazar
Mastering Engineer
John David Hiler
John David Hiler
Engineer
Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge
Mixing Engineer
Brad Wood
Brad Wood
Producer

Lyrics

When the earth was still flat
And clouds made of fire
And mountains stretched up to the sky
Sometimes higher
Folks roam the earth
Like big rollin' kegs
They had two sets of arms
They had 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, oh
The origin of love (Origin of love)
The origin of love (Origin of love)
Now, there was three sexes then
One that looked like two men glued, back to back
They're called the children of the sun
And similar in the shape and girth
Was 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 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 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
Dinosaurs into lizards"
And then, he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle
Gonna cut 'em right up in half"
And the storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire
And then, the 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 suddenly, God
Sewed the wound up to a hole
Pulled around 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
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 hoppin' around on one foot
And looking through one eye
Last time I saw you
We just split in two
You was looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way, so familiar
I could not recognize
'Cause 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
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it love
We wrapped our arms around each other
Try to shove ourselves back together
We was 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
The story, the origin of love
That's the origin of love (Oh, yeah)
The origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love
Written by: Stephen Trask

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