"Origin of Love" (Out of the Dark, 1972)
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riptide_asylumTitle: Origin of Love
Rating: PG
Summary: Where it all began...
Blond and pretty. That's what I thought the first time I laid eyes on him, standing amongst the new kids just arrived in-country. I don't even know why I noticed him, one of five new recruits, all of them fresh-faced, none of 'em with a single goddamn clue about this war.
When the world went to hell in forty kinds of lightning, as though the sky itself was on fire, it was him I saw fall into the greenblack jungle, him I followed. Him I saved.
The jungle burned around us, black and foul, the heat as fierce as breathing in the sun.
Through the sweat, blood and tears I saw him clearly, face streaked with blood and clay, almost unrecognizable, except his eyes. They held something I couldn't name, something that I'd known all my life yet never seen before.
We ran together, fell and ran again, holding on, so close I felt him breathing. His heart beat hard with mine, our fate the same, our lives entwined.
He was there and so was I and that was all we had. That time and every other, it's enough.
Last time I saw you
We'd just split in two
You was looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar, I could not recognise
Cos you had blood on your face
And I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same
As the one down in mine
The Origin of Love, Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Rating: PG
Summary: Where it all began...
Blond and pretty. That's what I thought the first time I laid eyes on him, standing amongst the new kids just arrived in-country. I don't even know why I noticed him, one of five new recruits, all of them fresh-faced, none of 'em with a single goddamn clue about this war.
When the world went to hell in forty kinds of lightning, as though the sky itself was on fire, it was him I saw fall into the greenblack jungle, him I followed. Him I saved.
The jungle burned around us, black and foul, the heat as fierce as breathing in the sun.
Through the sweat, blood and tears I saw him clearly, face streaked with blood and clay, almost unrecognizable, except his eyes. They held something I couldn't name, something that I'd known all my life yet never seen before.
We ran together, fell and ran again, holding on, so close I felt him breathing. His heart beat hard with mine, our fate the same, our lives entwined.
He was there and so was I and that was all we had. That time and every other, it's enough.
Last time I saw you
We'd just split in two
You was looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar, I could not recognise
Cos you had blood on your face
And I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same
As the one down in mine
The Origin of Love, Hedwig & the Angry Inch
