With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down.
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream for God as he looks in on them.
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town.
Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go, go, Godzilla!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla!
臨時ニュースを申し上げます! Rinji nyūsu o mōshiagemasu!
臨時ニュースを申し上げます! Rinji nyūsu o mōshiagemasu!
ゴジラが銀座の方に向っています! Gojira ga Ginza no hō ni mukatteimasu!
大至急、避難してください Daishikyū, hinan shite kudasai!
大至急、避難してください Daishikyū, hinan shite kudasai!
[Receiving breaking news!
Receiving breaking news!
Godzilla is headed towards the Ginza area!
Please seek shelter as soon as possible!
Please seek shelter as soon as possible!]
Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go, go, Godzilla!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla!
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
Godzilla!
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down.
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream for God as he looks in on them.
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town.
Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go, go, Godzilla!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla!
臨時ニュースを申し上げます! Rinji nyūsu o mōshiagemasu!
臨時ニュースを申し上げます! Rinji nyūsu o mōshiagemasu!
ゴジラが銀座の方に向っています! Gojira ga Ginza no hō ni mukatteimasu!
大至急、避難してください Daishikyū, hinan shite kudasai!
大至急、避難してください Daishikyū, hinan shite kudasai!
[Receiving breaking news!
Receiving breaking news!
Godzilla is headed towards the Ginza area!
Please seek shelter as soon as possible!
Please seek shelter as soon as possible!]
Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go, go, Godzilla!
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla!
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
Godzilla!
inviata da Bernart Bartleby - 29/12/2015 - 22:04
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Scritta da Donald Roeser, in arte Buck Dharma (1947-), membro fondatore della band Hard rock newyorkese
Nell’album intitolato “Spectres”
“La storia dimostra ancora e ancora come la natura evidenzi la follia degli uomini...”
E nel caso del mostro Gojira - in occidente Godzilla - la follia umana è quella nucleare, che i giapponesi avevano provato sulla loro pelle solo pochi anni prima... Nel 1954, quando nelle sale uscì il “Gojira” di Ishirō Honda, rettile cretacico risvegliato dagli esperimenti atomici americani nel Pacifico, i giapponesi avevano appena cominciato ad elaborare un lutto, quello di Hiroshima e Nagasaki, che non sarà mai consolato...
Non sapevo però che Godzilla fu ispirato ai produttori del Sol Levante da un film statunitense, “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” (“Il risveglio del dinosauro”) del 1952, tratto da un racconto di Ray Bradbury (già, quello di “Fahrenheit 451”), con al centro un lucertolone risvegliato da un’esplosione nucleare. Il nostro era animato in stop-motion dal grande Ray Harryhausen, “mostro” degli effetti speciali negli anni 50 e 60.