Neil Patrick Harris - The Origin of Love (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) [Official Audio]

The official audio of "The Origin of Love" by Neil Patrick Harris from the soundtrack of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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ABOUT HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Winner of 4 Tony Awards® including
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Actor -- Neil Patrick Harris
Best Featured Actress -- Lena Hall
Best Lighting in a Musical

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Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) makes his long-awaited return to Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and he is "beyond fabulous" (Hollywood Reporter). Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer directs John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's landmark American musical.

Brilliantly innovative and raucously entertaining, Hedwig "makes Broadway rock harder than ever before" (Time Out New York).

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[rubas]

I don't care about which version is what, the lyrics of this song always gets into me !! 

[helgaroalkvam]

Sex Education serie with Asa Butterfield brought me here! Thank You!

[Miketochy]

Going through the comments and reading arguments about who sang it better, people completely missing the point.

This song was my very first connection to a better understanding of and acceptance of myself.

Doesn't matter how it was sung still makes me highly emotional every time I hear it.

Maybe its because

[ppeeu]

this is the best thing ive ever heard what the hell😳

[Gredran]

Lmao, you guys are complaining he doesn't sound like JCM, but then if he did sound more like him, I'm sure you'd be like, OMG HE'S TRYING TO BE JCM HE SHOULD JUST BE HIMSELF lol

[daemonista]

I was looking for this song today because my husband and I cherish it so much and I found Neil Patrick's voice to enjoy.

[ilikebands]

That echo on “fire” is so beautiful...

[mariahdawn]

When the earth was still flat,
And clouds made of fire,
And mountains stretched up 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 the origin of love.

The origin of love
(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 the children of the moon
Looked like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They was part sun, part earth,
Part daughter, part son.

Aaahhh... The origin of love.

Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants."
But Zeus said, "No,
You better let me
Use my lightning, like scissors,
Like I cut the legs off the whales,
Dinosaurs into lizards."
And then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh,
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
Gonna cut them right up in half."
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun
And the moon
And the earth.
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up to a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us the price we pay.
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane,
To scatter us away,
In a flood of wind and rain,
A sea of tidal waves,
To wash us all away,
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping around on one foot,
Looking through one eye.

The 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,
But I could not recognize,
Cause you had blood on your face;
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.
That's the pain,
That cuts a straight line
Down through the heart;
We called it love.
We wrapped our arms around each other,
Tried to shove ourselves back together.
We was 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,
The story
The origin of love.
That's the origin of love.
Oh yeah.
The origin of love.
The origin of love.
The origin of love.

[amandaphelps]

Favorite version of how love was created! Beautiful song ❤

[calamitousjane]

These lyrics make water fall out of my face, every single time..

[shay]

Neil is so beautiful. Amazing performance. 💜🥰👏🏼

[superoldblue]

wow this guy in which everyone knows, is there anything that he cannot do! love his work so much.

[TheHManShow]

I saw Michael and Darren as Hedwig and they totally blew me away!!! Same with this show

[sirjedisentinel]

I am so getting this soundtrack.  I've been looking for this!  Origin of Love is my favorite song in the show.  Thank you!  Neil did way better than I expected.

[dajase]

This movie brings back memories of a confused teenager on the road. I first saw it a couple decades ago and still get a rush from it today! I would love to have the opportunity to see it as a play.

[chocolatekyppcookie]

I love both versions. I feel like I play em back to back on repeat. I just love the song so much, the difference in vocals is nice I find. I also think Neil Patrick Harris was a good pic for the broadway cast recording.

[rosemarykesselring]

Love the instrumentation in this version.

[mynameismatt]

Zues said to thor, Nah bro, I'ma cut them in half.

[Paquita]

Neil Patrick Harris!!! magnífico ...simplemente lo amo!!!

[TheHManShow]

Without a doubt the most original song in the show! John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask are geniuses