主题：【歌曲欣赏】——爱的起源 The Origin of Love -- 小椰

柏拉图在《会饮篇》（Plato's Symposium）中，描写了这样一次宴会：在宴会上，与座者每人要致一篇献给爱神（Eros）的对爱情的颂词。剧作家阿里斯托芬（Aristophanes）就说了，在很久很久啊，我们人类的是由两个背靠背的人组成的。有两个男人组成的呢，就是太阳之子，有两个女人组成的呢，就是地球之子，由一男一女组成的，是月亮之子。这些有两张脸，八只手脚的人类，人之初，性本善，两小无猜，不知道什么是爱情。他们很好很强大，对天神颇为不敬。宙斯和众神有点害怕，于是就把这种人类从中间分成了两半，让他们用两条腿行走，把背后切开的皮肤拉到前面成为肚脐。从此以后，地球上就有了孤独的男人和女人。他们命中注定要终身寻找失去的另一办，爱的起源由此开始。从前的月亮之子就成为了结成夫妻的男人和女人，地球之子就成为了女同，太阳之子就成为男同。

The Origin of Love（爱的起源）是摇滚音乐剧Hedwig and the Angry Inch中的一首歌。

这部音乐剧说的是来自东德的变性歌手Hedwig和他（她）的摇滚乐团的故事。关于故事本身，可能有的人会比较敏感，我就不多介绍了。音乐剧自1998年上演以来获得了巨大的成功，许多观众看了不下百遍。音乐剧在2001年被改编为独立制作同名电影，在多个电影节获得提名。

其中The Origin of Love歌词的灵感来自柏拉图的《会饮篇》。下面这个Flash中，浓妆艳抹的人就是Hedwig。他（她）的扮演者John Cameron Mitchell是一位作家，演员和导演。这部音乐剧就是他和同伴策划制作的。过多的介绍John Cameron Mitchell的背景可能也会引起争议，我也就不多说了，只希望大家不要带有色眼睛的去欣赏这首歌曲。我个人觉得，听这首歌的时候最好是在夜深人静的时候，拉着你深爱的人的手，和他（她）一起欣赏，你一定会感觉到心灵的触动，感觉到爱情的强大和悲壮，感觉到你们之间血肉相连，是不可分开的。

这个Flash是电影中的片断，其中的动画非常简单幼稚，好像是小孩子的画笔一般，但又带着抽象和前卫。即使你很敏感受不了男办女装，也请你给这个动画点机会。乐团里有一个大胡子，注意一下他的声音，挺有趣的。

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歌词

When the earth was still flat,

And the 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

And there were three sexes then,

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back,

Called the children of the sun.

And similar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth.

They looked like two girls

Rolled up in one.

And the children of the moon

Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.

They were part sun, part earth

Part daughter, part son.

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."

And Zeus said, "No,

You better let me

Use my lightening, like scissors,

Like I cut the legs off the whales

And dinosaurs into lizards."

Then he grabbed up some bolts

And 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 into a hole,

Pulled it round to our belly

To remind us of 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,

And 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 round on one foot

And looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you

We had just split in two.

You were 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,

Cuts a straight line

Down through the heart;

We called it love.

So we wrapped our arms around each other,

Trying to shove ourselves back together.

We were making love,

Making love.

It was a cold dark evening,

Such a long time ago,

When by the mighty hand of Jove,

It was the sad story

How we became

Lonely two-legged creatures,

It's the story of

The origin of love.

That's the origin of love.

如果你看到这里，说明你有耐心听完看完，恭喜恭喜。这首歌非常长，非常的复杂，很难唱。歌词即使是翻译成中文也是非常生动的。歌词中故意把不同文化中的神混淆在一起，还带着点幽默。柏拉图在《会饮篇》想表达的含义之一就是，与其说爱情是肉体上的接触，不如说是灵魂心灵上的交合，这就是所谓的“柏拉图式”的爱情。当人们说起“柏拉图式”的爱情的时候，好像就意味着没有肉欲。可是歌里说的好，当我们make love的时候，是因为爱情是我们想要重新回到对方身体里，当我们心灵相通的时候，making love才是真正美好的。在那样一个风雨交加的夜晚，我们被生生的拆散，成为了大千世界中姑孤孤单单的两个人。虽然满脸是血，面目全非，可是心灵的相互吸引仍然让我认出了你，你认出了我，我们终于找到了彼此，从此我们又变得很好很强大，再也不会孤单。

爱情是多么美丽啊。