When the earth was still flat,
当地球仍是平地
And the clouds made of fire,
当火仍构成云彩
And mountains stretched up to the sky,
山峰直冲云霄
Sometimes higher,
有时甚而更高
Folks roamed the earth
人们在地上漫游
Like big rolling kegs.
宛如旋转的大桶
They had two sets of arms.
他们长有四臂
They had two sets of legs.
他们长有四腿
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
在他们巨大的头上，有两张脸
So they could watch all around them
所以他们可以眼观八方
As they talked; while they read.
可以一边阅读，一边谈话
And they never knew nothing of love.
他们却从未知晓什么是爱
It was before the origin of love.
因为爱的起源，还未出现
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then,
那时人有三种性别
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
一种看似两个男人背贴着背
Called the children of the sun.
那是太阳之子
And similar in shape and girth
与之形态相似的
Were the children of the earth.
则是大地之女
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one.
看似两个女子蜷在一起
And the children of the moon
而月之子女
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
看似餐叉汤匙融合
They were part sun, part earth
一半来自太阳，一半源自大地
Part daughter, part son.
一半女子，一半男子
The origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared
而天神惧怕于
Of our strength and defiance
我们的力量与反抗
And Thor said,
雷神说道
"I'm gonna kill them all
让我锤死他们
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants."
像当初锤死巨人一样
And Zeus said, "No,
但宙斯争道
You better let me
不 让我来
Use my lightening, like scissors,
让我的闪电化为剪刀
Like I cut the legs off the whales
如同我曾剪去鲸的双腿
And dinosaurs into lizards."
将恐龙裁为蜥蜴
Then he grabbed up some bolts
于是他抓起雷电
And he let out a laugh,
放声大笑说道
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
我要将他们从中劈裂
Gonna cut them right up in half."
将他们一分为二
And then storm clouds gathered above
于是天上风起云涌
Into great balls of fire
变成硕大的火球
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
而那火球 雷霆万钧般落下
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
犹如闪耀的刀刃
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
将肉身撕裂
Of the children of the sun
分开太阳之子
And the moon
还有那月之子女
And the earth.
和大地后代
And some Indian god
某位印度神灵
Sewed the wound up into a hole,
将伤口缝合成一个孔
Pulled it round to our belly
并拉到我们的腹部
To remind us of the price we pay.
以警示我们所付的代价
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
而欧西里斯和尼罗河的神灵
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane,
呼风唤雨吹来飓风
To scatter us away,
使我们分散
In a flood of wind and rain,
经受狂风暴雨
And a sea of tidal waves,
经受潮起潮落
To wash us all away,
最后失散天涯
And if we don't behave
若我们不守规矩
They'll cut us down again
他们会再将我们劈开
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
让我们只能单脚跳跃前行
And looking through one eye.
单眼看这世界
Last time I saw you
上一次我们相见
We had just split in two.
我们刚被分离
You were looking at me.
你注视着我
I was looking at you.
我凝望着你
You had a way so familiar,
你看起来如此熟悉
But I could not recognize,
而我却认不出来
Cause you had blood on your face;
因你脸上有血
I had blood in my eyes.
因我眼里有血
But I could swear by your expression
但我能从你的神情看出
That the pain down in your soul
你我灵魂所经受的苦楚
Was the same as the one down in mine.
是如此一致
That's the pain,
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart;
那是我们被分离之时的切心之痛
We called it love.
我们称之为爱
So we wrapped our arms around each other,
我们拥抱对方
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
试图合为一体
We were making love,
我们在做爱
Making love.
做爱
It was a cold dark evening,
那是许久以前 一个又黑又冷的夜晚
Such a long time ago,
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
神祗的万能大手一挥
It was the sad story
我们的悲剧就此写成
How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures,
变成孤独的两腿生物
It's the story of
The origin of love.
这便是 爱的起源
That's the origin of love.
- 专辑：Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- 歌手：Stephen Trask
- 歌曲：Origin Of Love
