Tom Waits - King Kong Lyrics






They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the King

They came to his island
And they brought her with them
They wanted to get his picture
But they were surprised by his enormous size

And when he saw the woman
He took her without question
Because after all
He was the King

And he loved the woman
He loved the way she looked
And she wouldn't stop screaming

But he loved the woman
And he fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex
And it was a bloody battle
But he fought it for his woman

And he climbed up a mountain
And he looked around
Some kind of forest
With all these dinosaurs

And he stripped his woman
He stripped her bare
But there was a pterodactyl
There!

And then a hero
Came and took his woman
And they fell off the mountain
Into some water

And then later
He came looking for his woman
But they were waiting
And they threw a bomb

And they tied him
And took him across the ocean
And they chained him
And put him in the show

And when he saw his woman
He broke loose
And everyone fled in terror
And he was looking for her

And he overtook a train
And he was looking in the street
And then he found her in her apartment

And he climbed up the Empire State building
It was like a phallic symbol
And he took his woman
To the top of that towering temple

And he climbed up and looked around
Some kind of city
With all those skyscrapers
And all the cars

Just him and his screaming woman
And they were finally alone
He loved his woman
You could see it in his eyes
His great big eyes

He loved his woman
From the moment that he saw her
He was all choked up inside

But when the airplanes came
He was soon to die
But he hung on long enough to set his woman down
And make sure that she was safe

And as the bullets pierced
He looked at her so sincere
Before he fell
Because he loved his woman

And they shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the King

Who killed the monkey
'Twas beauty that killed the beast

And Willis O'Brien died
A tragic death
There wasn't much
That he had left

And Ray Harryhousen said
That when Willis died
That's when the King was really dead

They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the King





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  1. M.... M....

    Boooooring

  2. W.... ....

    God covering an angel

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    @Emiliano López Ooof course, juuust sayin'..

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    lol, besides God's away on business...Remember??

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    @Ryan Hale a god of music... It wasn't a literal comment, I was a bit sad DJ had passed and I love Waits and this.cover. It was meant to be a miniscule tribute to two greats. Obviously I don't know either of them personally, but 10/10 for pissing on someone's sadness.

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    More like the devil covering an angel

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    @Anthony DiPasquale Haha!! Right?!

  3. I.... V....

    That's what's thrown up, when some genius chews up another geniuses song....absolutely TASTEEEE....though everybody should listen to the heartshattering original of daniel johnston....but still, genius intercoursing genius....

  4. J.... C....

    Peter Jackson should have used this song for King Kong (2005).

  5. o.... ....

    four castrated dislikers

  6. k.... Y....

    So there's no confusion: I dig this. Love it like most of Tom Wait's work.  I always have this feeling that it's a transcript of asking a 4 or 5 year old to tell you about the movie that they saw.  Just rambling, repeating description.

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    it's by this lad called daniel johnston, critics like to call him child like. i guess it's as much about him as it is about king kong

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    "the empire state building was like a phallic object" totally what a 5 year old would say

  7. J.... L....

    Scarier than most heavy metal or Goth band's songs. It's spooky, heavy and filled with this tribal danger zombie beat. I see in my mind Bela Lugosi on percussion, Boris Karloff on guitar and Dwight Frye on bass. Basil Rathbone is in there somewhere with the chorus from the island of Dr. Moreau. Waits' creative insanity is for our benefit.

  8. S.... ....

    Wow. He put Siskel and Ebert to shame.

  9. s.... ....

    daniel johnston's is much better...

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    @lw second to dylan"s?? man, that's bold. you're a bold kid.

  10. Z.... C....

    TOM WAITS waits for NO one   ...  

  11. S.... ....

    Fantastic!

  12. B.... B....

    I'm sorry Daniel Johnston this is much better.

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    Brannagan Brouk hahahah

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    i want to hear tom review vanilla sky