"Trampling Tokyo"

"Trampling Tokyo" (song) Performed by Alan Moore, The Jazz Butcher Lyrics by Alan Moore Recorded Summer 1993 Release date July 19, 2011

"Trampling Tokyo" (comic) Written by Alan Moore Art by Arthur Adams Colors by Laura Allred (1996 re-release) Publish date 1994, 1996, 1998, 2005

"Trampling Tokyo" is a song about Godzilla by famed comic book writer Alan Moore. Though Moore recorded the song in the summer of 1993, in collaboration with Pat Fish ("The Jazz Butcher"), it would not see the light of day until 2011; it was released for the first time on A Compilation of Songs and Performances by Alan Moore and Friends, a CD which came packaged with Gary Spencer Millidge's biography Alan Moore: Storyteller. Despite this, the song's lyrics (albeit different from those sung in the 1993 recording) were published in Caliber Press' 1994 comic book Negative Burn #18, accompanied by black-and-white illustrations from Arthur "Art" Adams. A colored version was included in Dark Horse's Art Adams' Creature Features in 1996, while the original has been republished by Caliber in 1998's Alan Moore's Songbook and by Image Comics in 2005's Negative Burn: The Best from 1993-1998.

Lyrics

1993 recording

1994 comic

I'm tired of trampling Tokyo. No interest remains In eating cars or tearing down the elevated trains And I long for Monster Island In the late Cretaceous twilight Where every night beneath the perfect stars The tiny twins hold hands and sing While Mothra plays guitar, and it sounds like this I'm bored to death when every breath sets the boulevard on fire I'm saving my residuals and I'm planning to retire Far away on Monster Island In the radioactive silence Sipping X-rays underneath a cocktail sky Where the surf booms like Hiroshima And the fishes really fly Me and Robert Oppenheimer, we shared a drink the other night I told him: Bob, if you quit your job, or if things aren't going right Come with me to Monster Island Where the palm trees gleam like pylons Where the luminous lagoon night never ends In a monster world with my monster girl And all my monster friends are singing (x4): Gojira! Gojira! Go! And I'm so tired of trampling Tokyo

I'm tired of trampling Tokyo. No interest remains In eating cars or tearing down the elevated trains And I long for Monster Island In the late Cretaceous silence Where every night beneath the perfect stars The tiny twins hold hands and sing While Mothra plays guitar. I'm bored to death when my every breath sets the boulevard on fire I'm saving my residuals and I'm planning to retire Far away on Monster Island In the radioactive twilight Sipping X-rays underneath a cocktail sky Where the surf booms like Hiroshima And the fishes really fly. Me and Robert Oppenheimmer [sic], we shared a drink the other night I told him: Bob, if you quit your job, or if things aren't going right Come with me to Monster Island Where the palm trees gleam like pylons Where the luminous lagoon night never ends And all my monster friends Are singin' Gojira! Gojira! Go! And I'm so tired of trampling Tokyo.

Song credits

Adapted from The Jazz Butcher's website.

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

• Lyrics and vocals by   Alan Moore
• Backing vocals by   Pat Fish, Kathie McGinty
• Guitar, organ, programming, and music by   Pat Fish
• Drums by   Jill Partington
• Bass by   Michael Holloway
• Huge space guitar by   Tony Tomblin

Comic appearances

Monsters Godzilla Mothra (larva) Rodan Anguirus Gorosaurus Characters Robert Oppenheimmer (mentioned)

Weapons, vehicles, and races ASTOL-MB93 Shobijin (mentioned indirectly) Locations Japan Tokyo Hiroshima (mentioned) Monster Island (mentioned)

Comic gallery

Scans

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Videos

Full song

References

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