Hedwig And The Angry Inch - The Origin Of Love
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Rufus Wainwright - The Origin of Love
Sources:
Cover by Rufus Wainwright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NQY_Nqryk
Bass tutorial of original (Jonathan Putterman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI554UlIviI
Bass cover of original (TJH3113) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AnujZIVGcQ
^ This cover has lots of cool fills, check it for next steps
[Begin Song]
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When the Earth was still flat and the clouds made of fire, and mountains stretched up...
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Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs, They had two sets of arms, two sets of legs
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They had two faces peering out of one giant head, and they could watch all around...
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And they never knew nothing of love, it was before, the origin of love
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The origin of love, the origin of love
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[Verse 2] 1:12
And there was three sexes then, one that looked like two men glued back to back, called...
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And Similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth, they looked like two girls...
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And the children of moon were like a fork stuck on a spoon, they were part sun part earth...
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The origin of love, the origin of love...
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[Verse 3] (1:52)
Now the Gods grew quite scared of our strength and defiance, and Thor said...
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And Zues said "No you better let me use my lightning like scissors, the way I cut the legs...
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Then he grabbed up some bolts, and he let out a laugh, said "I'll split them right down the middle...
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And then the storm clouds gather above, into great balls of fire.
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[Verse 4] 2:35
AND THEN FIRE shot down from the sky in bolts, like shining blades of a knife
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And it ripped right through the flesh of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth
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And some Indian god sewed the wound up into a hole pulled it around to our belly To remind us...
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AND OSIRIS, and the Gods of the Nile, Gathered up a big storm, to blow a hurricane
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To scatter us away, in a flood of wind and rain, and a sea of tidal waves, To wash us all away
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And if we dont behave, they'll cut us down again, We'll be hoppin around on one foot, lookin...
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[Break]
[Verse 5]
The last time I saw you, we had just split in two, you were lookin at me, and I was lookin at you.
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You had a way so familiar, But I could not recognize, cause you had blood on your face, and I had...
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But I could swear by your expression, that the pain down in your soul, was the same as the pain...
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Thats the pain, cuts a straight line down through the heart, we call it love
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So we wrapped our arms around eachother, tried to shove ourselves back together, we we're makin' love.
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It was a cold dark evenin' such a long time ago, when by the mighty hand of Jove
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It was a sad story how we became lonely two legged creatures, its was the story, the origin of love
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the origin of love, the origin of love, the origin of love
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