[Intro] [Slapback bass intro, surf guitar riff, drums crash in] [Air raid siren in the distance] [Verse 1] It came up through the harbour on a Tuesday afternoon Eight legs and forty eyes underneath a rising moon The army sent the tanks in but the tanks just disappeared Something big is walking and it's going straight thrue town The scientists all told us that the tests were safe and sound Now there's something in the water and it's crawling on the ground It climbed the Tokyo tower like a ladder to the sky Nobody is explaining and nobody's asking why [Pre-Chorus] Run! Run! Run! Here it comes! Run! Run! Run! Eight legs coming! [Chorus] Eight legs over Tokyo Webs across the sky Buildings wrapped in silk tonight Kiss your town goodbye Eight legs over Tokyo Nothing left to save Better learn to love your neighbourhood Arachnid overlord — hey! [Verse 2] The mayor said evacuate but where's a man to go When the highways all got cobwebs and the exits all webbed up My neighbour tried to fight it with a rolled-up magazine Bravest thing that I have ever seen The military dropped a bomb and made it twice as mad Now it's got a stinger and it's looking kinda sad I almost feel for it — it never asked for this A hundred meters tall and terrorizing Ginza Street [Pre-Chorus] Run! Run! Run! Here it comes! Run! Run! Run! Eight legs coming! [Chorus] Eight legs over Tokyo Webs across the sky Buildings wrapped in silk tonight Kiss your town goodbye Eight legs over Tokyo Nothing left to save Better learn to love your neighbourhood Arachnid overlord — hey! [Bridge — slapbass breakdown, half-spoken] Now they say a second one has surfaced off Osaka And a third one's been reported down in Rome The professor's on the television saying "We may have to learn to share our home" There's a spider in my bathtub — I don't even flinch no more Compared to what's outside my window That one's just a house guest, that's for sure [Final Chorus — full psychobilly chaos] Eight legs over Tokyo Webs across the sky Buildings wrapped in silk tonight Kiss your town goodbye Eight legs over Tokyo Nothing left to save Better learn to love your neighbourhood Arachnid overlord! All hail the arachnid overlord! Hey! Hey! Hey! [Outro] [Surf guitar riff, slapback bass, siren fading] It's building something in the bay now Nobody knows what for But the rent's gone down So I'm not moving anymore [Single guitar twang] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A psychobilly kaiju rampage — a hundred-meter spider rises from Tokyo harbour and wraps the city in silk while the army makes everything worse and the scientists insist the tests were safe. Classic 1950s monster movie camp delivered with slapback bass, surf guitar and full punk energy. Features a neighbour armed with a rolled-up magazine, a professor suggesting we learn to share, and a narrator who has made peace with the situation on the grounds that rent has gone down. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2026 Ande Records Lyrics by Ande All rights reserved. https://ande-records.se/
