영화 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' 中
Origin Of Love
사랑의 기원
나의 잃어 버린 반쪽은 어디에 있는 것일까…
Origin of Love의 뒷 이야기 (출처:www.hedwig.co.kr)
뮤지컬 헤드윅을 구상하면서 미첼은 작곡가 트래스크에게 에 나오는 아리스토파네스의 연설을 노래로 만들 것을 주문했다. 곡이 만들어진 시점은 사실상 헤드윅의 캐릭터가 틀을 갖추기도 전이었으며, 그러고 보면, “The Origin of Love”는 헤드윅이라는 작품 자체의 오리진이기도 하다. 그도 그럴 것이, 헤드윅의 파란만장한 인생역정은 어쩌면 “사랑의 기원”으로 되돌아가려는 기나긴 하나의 여정으로 함축될 수 있기 때문이다.
아리스토파네스의 신화에 따르면 , 오래전 우리는 남자와 여자로 갈라지기 전 하나의 쌍으로 이루어진 완성체였다고 한다. 그땐 세가지의 性이 있었는데, 소년과 소년 (해의 아이들), 소녀와 소녀 (땅의 아이들), 소년과 소녀 (달의 아이들)가 하나로 붙어있는 모습을 하고 있었다. 완성체로서 당당한 인간이 갖는 능력에 위협을 느낀 제우스 신은 각각의 성을 둘로 갈라버린다. 그리고 사랑이란 바로 완성된 전체를 향한 열망, 즉 잃어버린 반쪽과 다시 결합하여 오래 전 그 행복한 상태로 다시 돌아가려는 열망으로 묘사된다.
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.
