Godzilla vs. King Kong (1962)

from The Villain is Right! by Andrew Delaney

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lyrics

“Godzilla vs. King Kong (1962)”

Boom goes the bomb over Hiroshima
I was just a little boy myself
But now you oughta see my
Bulletproof hide and my skyscraper silhouette
Spines on my back
And my deadly atomic breath
A pacifist out there in the Pacific Ocean
Sleeping in Pandora's Box
Until they blew it open
Mama's an iguana and I guess it's an odd mix
But Dad's the military industrial complex

Oh now
What's that sound?
It's the sound of a reckoning
Coming down
Oh now
What's that sound
It's the sound of a reckoning

And here comes the challenger

In the belly of a ship
Far from home
Ain't really sure where this thing is going
He's been tricked and trapped and bound and chained
Wondering if he'll ever see his people again
Now they're pointing and they're staring
Like he's some kinda freak
All to make somebody's pockets deeper
When he's free they wanna treat him like came to start a war
Now where have I heard that story before?

Oh now
What's that sound?
It's the sound of a reckoning
Coming down
Oh now
What's that sound
It's the sound of a reckoning

Meanwhile, back home
The whole place a fixer upper
War done tore it apart
So why even bother?
Somebody says you can do yourself a favor
And start you up a brand new life
Out across the water
And Kong? Well he ain't really doing any better
He can't find work
And they stuck him in the ghetto
Til there's a giant lizard
Now he's man of the hour
Go and be all you can be
You can fight the foreign power

But that ain't too cool, see
Cause that's me

And now it's high noon
We're standing in the street
And I hear somebody whisper
Let duty kill the beast
And then it kind hits me
I know just where I am
The place that stuck the Japanese in internment camps
Bought and sold people
Cut a trail of tears
And it dawns on the king exactly who he is
And he smiles and I smile
My brand new friend and me
Cause we've got an understanding
That we've got a common enemy

Oh now
What's that sound?
It's the sound of a reckoning
Coming down
Oh now
What's that sound
It's the sound of a reckoning
It's the sound of a reckoning

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from The Villain is Right!, released February 19, 2021

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