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| "Trampling Tokyo" (comic)
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Laura Allred (1996 re-release)
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"Trampling Tokyo"[a] 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
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1994 comic
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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
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Gojira! Gojira! Go!
And I'm so tired of trampling Tokyo
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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.
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Song credits
Adapted from The Jazz Butcher's website.[1]
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
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Notes
- ↑ The title "Trampling Tokyo" is used on the 2011 CD's track list and Art Adams' Creature Features' table of contents. The 1994 comic instead reads "Alan Moore's Songbook: Trampling Tokyo" on its cover page, and Negative Burn #18's table of contents simply calls it "Alan Moore's Songbook."
References
This is a list of references for Trampling Tokyo. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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