Chords for The Origin Of Love
Tempo:
103.85 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
A
Bm
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Bm]
[A] [D]
When the earth was still flat, [Bm] and clouds made of fire,
[D] and mountains stretched up [E] to the sky, sometimes higher,
[G] folks roamed the earth like big rolling cakes.
They [D] had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs,
they had two faces peering out of one giant head,
so they could [Em] watch all around [A] them as they talked,
while they read, [G] and they never [A] known [D] the thing of love.
[Bm] It [G] was before all [A] of them, the origin [D] of love.
The origin [G] of love.
The origin [D] of love.
The origin of love.
And [Bm] there was three sexes then, one that looked like men glued [D] up back to back,
they're called the [G] children of the sun,
[D] and [Bm] similar in shape and girth as the children of the earth,
they looked like two girls rolled up [G] in one.
[A] Then the children of the moon, like a [B] fork stuck on a spoon,
[C#m] they were spots and butterfots, [A] butterfots, and
[E] [D]
[G] The origin [D] of love.
[G] Now the gods grew quite scared [Bm] of our strength and defiance,
and Thor said, [D] I'm gonna kill them all with my [G] hammer, like I killed the giants.
But Zeus said, no, you better let me use my lightning like scissors,
[D] like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards,
and then he grabbed up some bolts, [G] he let out a laugh,
said I'll [E] split them right down the middle, gonna [A] cut them right up in half.
[G] And the storm [A] clouds [D] gathered above, [G] he'd created balls of fire,
[E]
[B] and then fire shot it down from the sky [G] in bolts,
like a giant blade of a knife, and it [B] ripped,
ripped through the flesh of the children [G] of the sun and the moon and the earth,
and so did the [B] gods, so the wound ripped through a hole,
pulled around through our [G] belly to remind us the price we paid.
[B] Then Osiris, the god of the Nile,
cut [G] up a big storm,
blew [E] out a hurricane to scatter [B] us away,
the flood [G] of wind and rain,
the sea [E] of tidal wave,
the [B] monsters all away,
next [Em] we gon' [G] be made,
so try [E] to stand again,
you'll be hoppin' [G] round on one [D] foot,
[B] and lookin' through [G] one eye.
[D]
[G]
[D]
[Em] [G]
[D] Last time I saw you, [Bm] we just split in two,
[G] you was lookin' at me, [A] I was lookin' at you,
you [D] had a way so familiar,
I couldn't recognize, [G] cause you had blood on your face,
[A] I had blood in my [D] eyes, but I could swear by your expression,
that the pain down in your [G] soul,
see, the [A] one down in my,
oh, [D] that's the pain,
that [Bm] cuts a straight line [G] down through the heart,
we [A] called it love,
[D] we wrapped arms around each other,
tried to [Bm] sew ourselves back together,
[G] we was makin' love, [D] makin' love,
it was a cold heart,
keepin' such [Bm] a long time ago,
[G] my body [A] and the jokes,
[D] it was a sad story,
how we [Bm] became lonely to the [G] creatures,
story, the [A] origin of love,
the [D] origin of love,
[G]
the [D] origin of love,
[G] the [D] origin of love,
[G] the [D] origin of love.
[A]
[D]
[A] [D]
When the earth was still flat, [Bm] and clouds made of fire,
[D] and mountains stretched up [E] to the sky, sometimes higher,
[G] folks roamed the earth like big rolling cakes.
They [D] had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs,
they had two faces peering out of one giant head,
so they could [Em] watch all around [A] them as they talked,
while they read, [G] and they never [A] known [D] the thing of love.
[Bm] It [G] was before all [A] of them, the origin [D] of love.
The origin [G] of love.
The origin [D] of love.
The origin of love.
And [Bm] there was three sexes then, one that looked like men glued [D] up back to back,
they're called the [G] children of the sun,
[D] and [Bm] similar in shape and girth as the children of the earth,
they looked like two girls rolled up [G] in one.
[A] Then the children of the moon, like a [B] fork stuck on a spoon,
[C#m] they were spots and butterfots, [A] butterfots, and
[E] [D]
[G] The origin [D] of love.
[G] Now the gods grew quite scared [Bm] of our strength and defiance,
and Thor said, [D] I'm gonna kill them all with my [G] hammer, like I killed the giants.
But Zeus said, no, you better let me use my lightning like scissors,
[D] like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards,
and then he grabbed up some bolts, [G] he let out a laugh,
said I'll [E] split them right down the middle, gonna [A] cut them right up in half.
[G] And the storm [A] clouds [D] gathered above, [G] he'd created balls of fire,
[E]
[B] and then fire shot it down from the sky [G] in bolts,
like a giant blade of a knife, and it [B] ripped,
ripped through the flesh of the children [G] of the sun and the moon and the earth,
and so did the [B] gods, so the wound ripped through a hole,
pulled around through our [G] belly to remind us the price we paid.
[B] Then Osiris, the god of the Nile,
cut [G] up a big storm,
blew [E] out a hurricane to scatter [B] us away,
the flood [G] of wind and rain,
the sea [E] of tidal wave,
the [B] monsters all away,
next [Em] we gon' [G] be made,
so try [E] to stand again,
you'll be hoppin' [G] round on one [D] foot,
[B] and lookin' through [G] one eye.
[D]
[G]
[D]
[Em] [G]
[D] Last time I saw you, [Bm] we just split in two,
[G] you was lookin' at me, [A] I was lookin' at you,
you [D] had a way so familiar,
I couldn't recognize, [G] cause you had blood on your face,
[A] I had blood in my [D] eyes, but I could swear by your expression,
that the pain down in your [G] soul,
see, the [A] one down in my,
oh, [D] that's the pain,
that [Bm] cuts a straight line [G] down through the heart,
we [A] called it love,
[D] we wrapped arms around each other,
tried to [Bm] sew ourselves back together,
[G] we was makin' love, [D] makin' love,
it was a cold heart,
keepin' such [Bm] a long time ago,
[G] my body [A] and the jokes,
[D] it was a sad story,
how we [Bm] became lonely to the [G] creatures,
story, the [A] origin of love,
the [D] origin of love,
[G]
the [D] origin of love,
[G] the [D] origin of love,
[G] the [D] origin of love.
[A]
[D]
Key:
G
D
A
Bm
B
G
D
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
When the earth was still flat, [Bm] and clouds made of fire,
[D] and mountains stretched up [E] to the sky, sometimes _ _ higher,
_ [G] folks roamed the earth like big rolling cakes.
They [D] had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs,
they had two faces peering out of one giant head,
so they could [Em] watch all around [A] them as they talked,
while they read, [G] and they never [A] known [D] the thing of love.
[Bm] It [G] was before all [A] of them, the origin [D] of love.
The origin [G] of love.
The origin [D] of love.
The origin of love. _
And [Bm] there was three sexes then, one that looked like men glued [D] up back to back,
they're called the [G] children of the sun,
_ [D] and [Bm] similar in shape and girth as the children of the earth,
they looked like two girls rolled up [G] in one.
_ _ [A] Then the children of the moon, like a [B] fork stuck on a spoon,
[C#m] they were spots and butterfots, [A] butterfots, and_
[E] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ The origin [D] of love. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Now the gods grew quite scared [Bm] of our strength and defiance,
and Thor said, [D] I'm gonna kill them all with my [G] hammer, like I killed the giants.
But Zeus said, no, you better let me use my lightning like scissors,
[D] like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards,
and then he grabbed up some bolts, [G] he let out a laugh,
said I'll [E] split them right down the middle, gonna [A] cut them right up in half.
[G] And the storm [A] clouds [D] gathered above, [G] he'd created balls of fire, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] and then fire _ shot it down from the sky [G] in bolts,
like a giant blade of a knife, _ and it [B] ripped,
ripped through the flesh of the children [G] of the sun and the moon and the earth,
and so did the [B] gods, so the wound ripped through a hole,
pulled around through our [G] belly to remind us the price we paid.
_ [B] Then Osiris, the god of the Nile,
cut [G] up a big storm,
blew [E] out a hurricane to scatter [B] us away,
the flood [G] of wind and rain,
the sea [E] of tidal wave,
the [B] monsters all away,
next [Em] we gon' [G] be made,
so try [E] to stand again,
you'll be hoppin' [G] round on one [D] foot,
[B] and lookin' through [G] one eye. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] Last time I saw you, [Bm] we just split in two,
[G] you was lookin' at me, [A] I was lookin' at you,
you [D] had a way so familiar,
I couldn't recognize, [G] cause you had blood on your face,
[A] I had blood in my [D] eyes, but I could swear by your expression,
that the pain down in your [G] soul,
see, the [A] one down in my,
oh, [D] that's the pain,
that [Bm] cuts a straight line [G] down through the heart,
we [A] called it love,
[D] we wrapped arms around each other,
tried to [Bm] sew ourselves back together,
[G] we was makin' love, _ [D] makin' love,
it was a cold heart,
keepin' such [Bm] a long time ago,
[G] my body [A] and the jokes,
[D] it was a sad story,
how we [Bm] became lonely to the [G] creatures,
story, the [A] origin of love,
the [D] origin of love,
_ [G] _ _
the [D] origin of love,
_ [G] the _ _ [D] origin of love,
_ [G] the _ _ [D] origin of love. _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
When the earth was still flat, [Bm] and clouds made of fire,
[D] and mountains stretched up [E] to the sky, sometimes _ _ higher,
_ [G] folks roamed the earth like big rolling cakes.
They [D] had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs,
they had two faces peering out of one giant head,
so they could [Em] watch all around [A] them as they talked,
while they read, [G] and they never [A] known [D] the thing of love.
[Bm] It [G] was before all [A] of them, the origin [D] of love.
The origin [G] of love.
The origin [D] of love.
The origin of love. _
And [Bm] there was three sexes then, one that looked like men glued [D] up back to back,
they're called the [G] children of the sun,
_ [D] and [Bm] similar in shape and girth as the children of the earth,
they looked like two girls rolled up [G] in one.
_ _ [A] Then the children of the moon, like a [B] fork stuck on a spoon,
[C#m] they were spots and butterfots, [A] butterfots, and_
[E] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ The origin [D] of love. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Now the gods grew quite scared [Bm] of our strength and defiance,
and Thor said, [D] I'm gonna kill them all with my [G] hammer, like I killed the giants.
But Zeus said, no, you better let me use my lightning like scissors,
[D] like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards,
and then he grabbed up some bolts, [G] he let out a laugh,
said I'll [E] split them right down the middle, gonna [A] cut them right up in half.
[G] And the storm [A] clouds [D] gathered above, [G] he'd created balls of fire, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] and then fire _ shot it down from the sky [G] in bolts,
like a giant blade of a knife, _ and it [B] ripped,
ripped through the flesh of the children [G] of the sun and the moon and the earth,
and so did the [B] gods, so the wound ripped through a hole,
pulled around through our [G] belly to remind us the price we paid.
_ [B] Then Osiris, the god of the Nile,
cut [G] up a big storm,
blew [E] out a hurricane to scatter [B] us away,
the flood [G] of wind and rain,
the sea [E] of tidal wave,
the [B] monsters all away,
next [Em] we gon' [G] be made,
so try [E] to stand again,
you'll be hoppin' [G] round on one [D] foot,
[B] and lookin' through [G] one eye. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] Last time I saw you, [Bm] we just split in two,
[G] you was lookin' at me, [A] I was lookin' at you,
you [D] had a way so familiar,
I couldn't recognize, [G] cause you had blood on your face,
[A] I had blood in my [D] eyes, but I could swear by your expression,
that the pain down in your [G] soul,
see, the [A] one down in my,
oh, [D] that's the pain,
that [Bm] cuts a straight line [G] down through the heart,
we [A] called it love,
[D] we wrapped arms around each other,
tried to [Bm] sew ourselves back together,
[G] we was makin' love, _ [D] makin' love,
it was a cold heart,
keepin' such [Bm] a long time ago,
[G] my body [A] and the jokes,
[D] it was a sad story,
how we [Bm] became lonely to the [G] creatures,
story, the [A] origin of love,
the [D] origin of love,
_ [G] _ _
the [D] origin of love,
_ [G] the _ _ [D] origin of love,
_ [G] the _ _ [D] origin of love. _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _