Hercules Lyrics - Singles - George Watsky

Chorus 

I know I'm just as strong as Hercules 

Because it's wired in my circuitry 

And if I'm just as strong as Hercules 

You'll see I'm just as strong as Hercules 

Verse 1 

In 1638 they came from Sweden, 

Ship shape settlers late looking for Eden, 

the Delaware tribe wasn't really keen on leaving 

so they "bought em out" or slaughtered them quick and got to breeding 

1659 they built a fortress 

stationed soldiers, and gave them horses 

but now their forces were losing their resources 

moving in the living quick as moving out the corpses 

started changing courses, when we got the Quakers 

and they been running town since Cromwell met his maker 

they didn't take pay cut, Quakers got their cake up 

the paper came triangulating, trading with Jamaica 

Now in the 1700s they took care of biz 

built the families through some noble marriages 

Still in WIlmington, doing what their parents did 

living up on 7th street in Mansions they inherited 

1800 and in step the du Ponts 

Irenee du Pont was fleeing the war in France 

he made the jaunt cause apparently murder rate 

was higher for gentle people spitting on the third estate 

He started working late, he had grand design 

And when we cut a couple fingers off the hands of time 

The Du Ponts were running under Delaware like panty lines 

they built a mill for small explosives on the Brandywine 

But gun powder's just as temperamental 

as the rich kids with CEO potential 

It's essential to compete for our emergencies 

Which brings me to a company called Hercules 

Chorus 

I hope I'm just as strong as Hercules 

I hope I'm just as strong as Hercules 

But when it comes to stacking currencies 

I'd like to be as strong as Hercules 

Verse 2 

Hercules Gunpowder started kind of small 

Du Pont had it all, were sparkling wall to wall 

They were ballin in the fall of 1899 

when T.C. Dupont crawled up the Brandywine 

Now Thomas Coleman, started as a coal man 

In the mines in Kentucky with his old man 

joined whole fam, and flipping the strip tease 

Went from fig leaves all the way to big cheese 

Never got on his knees for the love it won him 

from couple of brothers, Lewis and Russell Dunham 

They were running shit with Coleman's muscle 

Lewis wasn't clueless 

But Russell's on his hustle 

Now brother Lou, was Coleman's true blue man 

T.C. would Idea and Lou drew plans 

Dupont had seventy percent of GDP 

When it came to gun powder and TNT 

they bought even bought Hercules 

"Scandilous!" 

said the government, so brought on anti-trust 

litigation, and they split business up in three 

Into Atlas and Dupont, and Hercules 

But certainly they were busting heads 

put in work at Hercules, then made Russell prez 

in 1912 up the road from Dover 

my great great grandfather Russ took over 

Chorus 

I know I'm just just as strong as Hercules 

I know I'm just just as strong as Hercules 

Because It's written in my history 

I know I'm just as strong as Hercules 

Verse 3 

Russell Dunham, we said Daddy D 

Or sugar Daddy D to half the family 

Ran Hercules as an affable property 

slap on the wrist from capitalist democracy 

And so between TC and Papa D 

A bit improperly they adopt a monopoly 

And instead of dotting the i's and often crossing the T's 

they take a walk in the trees, and talk and pocket the cheese 

And when Russell dropped to his knees, his heirs cashed out 

every generation after the shares passed down 

(So where's that now?) Split between six ladies 

and my mother had the stocks till the 1980's 

(If Stonewall pays my phone calls 

If San Juan fills my scantron 

If every molten shower out in Okinawa fueled by smoking powder 

pays my broken power send my folks the flowers) 

if it's irrelevant to my intelligence 

gimme a shotgun, I'm dropping these pink elephants 

I'll take a tranquilizer shot and sell the sedatives 

out in delaware well aware the fella lives 

(And what if Iwo Jima) 

all the skeletons in my closet are dead relatives 

(And if the Fall of Saigon) 

And then I grow up to be another screw up 

(And if the Tet Offensive) 

But if I blow up 

it'll be cause they blew up 

Chorus 

My mother loves me more than Hercules 

My parents work harder than Hercules 

But if I think of this as burglary 

I know I'm stronger cause of Hercules