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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 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 the Origin of Love
There were three sexes then. One that looked like two men glued up back to back, they called the Children of the Sun
And similar in shape and girth were the Children of the Earth. They looked like two girls rolled up in one
The Children of the Moon looked like a fork shoved on a spoon. They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son
Now the Gods grew quite scared of our strength and defiance
And Thor said "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer, like I killed the giants"
Zeus said "No! You'd better let me use my lightning like scissors"
"Like I cut the legs off the whales"
"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, gonna cut them right up in half"
... and the storm clouds gathered above into great balls of fire
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 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 hopping around on one foot
And looking through one eye
Last time I saw you we had just split in two. You was looking at me. I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar, but I could not recognise 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, cuts a straight line down through the heart - we call it love
We wrapped our arms around each other, tried to shove ourselves back together
We were 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
It's the story of the origin of love

"How can I say who touched me the most? My father?"

"Could it have been my East German mother?"

"I recently found my first diary, aged 2 through 6. Fully illustrated".

"One day we were watching Jesus Christ Superstar on American Forces television."

"She got her wish when the wall went up...Communism, God rest its soul
"A giant sized sugar daddy named Luther".
"The narrow pallet that we had shared since daddy left..."
"Tommy Speck - a sixteen year old four eyed pock marked dungeons and dragons obessesd Jesus freak..."
Tommy and Hedwig
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