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[Stephen Trask] fix text of Origin of Love #855

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17 changes: 8 additions & 9 deletions ...ephen Trask/Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Origin of Love
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Expand Up @@ -5,15 +5,14 @@ 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, oh
The origin of love (origin of love)
The origin of love (origin of love)
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 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 was “the children of the Earth”, they looked like
Two girls rolled up in one
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”
Was like a fork shoved on a spoon
They was part-Sun, part-Earth, part-daughter, part-son
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ And we’ll be hopping 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 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, I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
Expand All @@ -54,11 +53,11 @@ That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it “love”
We wrapped our arms around each other
Trying to shove ourselves back together
We was making love, making love
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
That story, the origin of love, that’s the origin of love (oh yeah)
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…
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