Hedwig And The Angry Inch - The Origin Of Love Chords

[Intro]
D     D/B    Asus4   G/D
 
[Verse 1]
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When the earth was still flat
        Bm7
And the clouds made of fire
    Asus4
And mountains stretched up to the sky
G/D
Sometimes higher
G
Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs
         D
They had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs
       D/F#                      G
The had two faces peering out of one giant head
             Em
So they could watch all around them
        A7
As they talked while they read
         G          A          D
And they never knew nothing of love
         G       A                     D     G
It was before... whoa... the origin of love
              D     G
The origin of love
 
[Verse 2]
               Bm
And there were three sexes then, one that looked
                              D                                G
Like two men glued up back to back, called the children of the sun.
        Bm
And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth.
                 D                         G
They looked like... two girls rolled up in one.
          A
And the children of the moon
                Bm
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
               C#m                   Bm             A
They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son.
D     G                      D     G
Mmmmm... The origin of love
 
[Refrain]
        D
Now the gods grew quite scared
       Bm7
Of our strength and defiance
             Asus4
And Thor said, "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer,
G/D
Like I killed the giants."
                        G
And Zeus said, "No, you better let me
       D
Use my lightning like scissors,
               D
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards."
        D/F#
Then he grabbed up some bolts
       G
And he let out a laugh,
                       Em
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
              A7
Gonna cut 'em right up in half."
         G           A            D
And then storm clouds gathered above
                    G
Into great balls of fire
 
[Bridge]
           Bm                           G
And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts
 
Like shining blades of a knife.
       Bm
And it ripped right through the flesh
                       G
Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth.
                Bm
And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a hole
                                  G
Pulled it round to our belly to remind us of the price we paid.
      Bm
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
                  G
Gathered up a big storm
               Em
To blow a hurricane,
               Bm
To scatter us away,
                       G
In a flood of wind and rain,
                   Em
And a sea of tidal waves,
                 Bm
To wash us all away,
                  G
And if we don't behave
                      Em
They'll cut us down again
               Ab             G
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
D                       G
And looking through one eye.
 
[Instrumental]
D Dsus2 Dsus4  Em    G    A
D Dsus2 Dsus4  Em    G    A
 
[Verse 3]
D
Last time I saw you
       Bm7
We had just split in two.
         G
You were looking at me.
        A
I was looking at you.
          D
You had a way so familiar,
      Bm7
But I could not recognize,
               G
'Cause you had blood on your face;
      A
I had blood in my eyes.
      D
But I swear by your expression
         Bm7
That the pain down in your soul
        G                       A
Was the same as the one down in mine.
           D
That's the pain,
          Bm7                           G
Cuts a straight line down through the heart;
           A
We call it love.
               D
We wrapped our arms around each other,
                   Bm7
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
                 G
We were making love,
       A
Making love.
         D                             Bm7
It was a cold dark evening, such a long time ago,
            G              A
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
            D                     Bm7
It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures,
     G                    A
That story, the origin of love.
                      D     G
That's the origin of love.  (Aw yeah!)
 
[Outro]
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The origin of love
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The origin of love
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The origin of love
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