Gojira (1954) - Prayer For Peace

[creech444]

This song seems oddly appropriate now with all the destruction in Japan. Godzilla would be crying for his homeland now.

[MrSuperman216]

What exactly are the lyrics of this prayer, so to speak? What language is this?

This is so moving

[WolfkinNorthclaw]

@MrSuperman216 Japanese I suspect maybe one of the older dialects..perhaps from Hokido maybe?

[lanternmatango]

Where have we come in the nearly 60 years since this song was sung? Since we first witnessed what great destruction human madness is capable of? How our hidden cache of weapons has grown, the atom bomb was never enough! This dirge has echoed through the decades, as it will the centuries, as long as there are still ghosts left to listen.

[WolfkinNorthclaw]

The reason this is so haunting is the passionate voices of the children.

[LazloLorenzo]

This is a magnificent dirge. I think of Godzilla as the ultimate Eco Warrior for both better and worse...

[WolfkinNorthclaw]

This was perhaps his greatest work, Gojira 1954 the origional Japanese masterpiece by: Ishiro Honda was gripping powerful and very moving. It is one film that actually made me feel for the people and not just Gojira. The real monsters in that film was the ones who created the H-Bomb that created Gojira. The monster like the people of Japan...was an innocent victim of man's blindness.

[WolfkinNorthclaw]

I cry when ever i hear this...it is so sad moving and powerful...the mix of innocense and brutality is...unparalled. In all my efforts to capture this in my Godzilla Fan-Fiction...I've been unable to even come anywhere close. Akira Ifukube was a brilliant composer.

[Zomgninjapirates]

I cried, listening to this song, and I rarely cry... No matter how many times I hear it, wow..... Rest peacefully Ikufube.

You were damn gifted.

[TheCanadianPrairies]

A definately haunting piece of music.

Kudos, Ifukube. You were a talented composer.

[DanPhantom89]

whenever I hear this song, I immediately think of the 9/11 attacks, of the victims and the people who gave their own lives to try and save others.

[Parzival7831]

@DanPhantom89

Every time I hear this I think of me an proud an American, who was robbed.

I´ve cried after that so hard, because I´ve lost 6,32 Dollars, only because one dumb idiot have to feet his retarded kids. I think such people should exterminated.

Also people who cry because of war, in the news or some shit like that should exterminated. My and our problems are a way much harder.

btw awesome track

[Bensayhi94]

my hairs stood up my body tingled my brain slowed down my thoughts were only on seeing godzilla floating to the bottom of the ocean turning into the ashes and indestructable bones floating into trenches when thats where it should have ended -to the King

[UniversalHammer]

Yes! No doubt about it. Ifukube can truly be described as a genius. His music was perfect for these films, which wasn't easy to do. His music for DaiMajin was also awesome, in the literal sense of the word. Check those films out if you haven't seen them.

[Chris82bc]

I like this music, but I like the requiem from the underwater and hospital scenes best of all.

[UltimateLifeformRB]

We call it "moving" and "haunting" now, but I can just imagine the reaction it likely got in Japan when people first heard it.

[Godtryan]

That scene reminds you what Godzilla represents, the horrors of nuclear warfare.

[NeoSarinatan]

Not just that (though that especially), but Godzilla is the physical manifestation of mankind's destructive power. Godzilla shall live as long as there are soldiers shedding blood in foreign lands, as long as innocent men and women are being slaughtered in the name of genocide, as long as nuclear weapons exist in this world.

[DanPhantom89]

in that case, godzilla will always be around. Nuclear weapons will never be gone; you can't close pandora's box, so to speak. Sadly, it would be dangerous to disarm, because of the lunatics and brutal dictators in the world who have no ethics and would take advantage of what is meant to be humane and compassionate.

I doubt war will ever be gone, either; we have a brutal nature, and always have. we've just gotten better at killing over the centuries.

[NeoSarinatan]

Exactly.

[vader19907]

@DanPhantom89 thus we will be our own extinction if we don't change and fast

[DanPhantom89]

@vader19907 In that case, we're probably doomed. Our technology has grown, but our basic nature has stayed the same. 

[TheIdiotboy2]

@DanPhantom89  I agree

[wmelmoth]

@DanPhantom89 Sadly many of these lunatics are in our own congress and senate.

[wmelmoth]

@DanPhantom89 Sadly many of these lunatics are in our own congress and senate.

[watda74]

A haunting melody indeed. Don't want to hear this in the aftermath of the next (God Forbid) tragic catastrophe.

[sc0rge]

i ahrd song to listen to, not beause it's bad, but because it gets to me, i almost cried at this scene

[gjelpd001]

this song is poignant in modern times. many would cry if was the soundtrack to today's problems. perhap akira ifukube was in tune to the future more than he could realize.

[sc0rge]

I only wish i could go back in time and shake his hand, he was a musical genius

[nschario]

YEp! I wish to i could go back in time to meet Akira Ifukube the excllent composer for Godzilla! Was sure a talanted one.

[UnknownSun556]

Ifukube is/was a much overlooked composer.

I'm working on an arrangement of this for guitar and e-bow.

[jason2anime]

Same here. We should use this music for those who died on 9/11 and hope and pray that there will be peace. :(

[GojiraNisenMillenium]

I agree... We should also use this song for the soldiers that die in Iraq...

[nschario]

YOu're right we should do that.

[ghidorah1985]

believe it or not, this song actually made me shed a tear. I rarely do shed tears.

[gormaz5101]

One of Ifukube's most distinctive and original pieces. Quite beautiful.