The Origin Of Love

[Archie]

When the earth was still flat

And the clouds made of fire

And mountains stretched up to the sky

Sometimes higher

[Betty]

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

[Archie & Betty]

The origin of love

The origin of love

The origin of love

[Veronica]

And there were three sexes then

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back

They called them 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

And the children of the Moon

Looked like a fork stuck on a spoon

They were part Sun, part Earth

Part Daughter, part Son

Ah, the origin of love

[Jughead]

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

And Zeus said: No, you better let me

Use my lightning like scissors

Like I cut the legs off the whales

Dinosaurs into lizards

Then he grabbed up some bolts

He let out a laugh

Said: I'll split them right down the middle

Gonna cut them right up in half

And then 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

[Archie]

And some indian God

Sewed the wound up into a hole

Pulled it round to our belly

To remind us of the price we pay

[Archie & Betty]

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

And 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 'round on one foot

And looking through one eye

[Veronica]

The last time I saw you

We'd just split in two

You were 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

And I had blood in my eyes

[Archie and betty]

But I could swear by your expression

That the pain down in your soul

Was the same as the one down in mine

[Jughead]

That's the pain that cuts a straight line

Down through the heart

We called it love

[All]

We wrapped our arms around each other

Trying 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 the sad story how we became

Lonely two-legged creatures

It's the story of the origin of love

That's the origin of love

Oh yeah

The origin of love

The origin of love

The origin of love