Erin: My friend Kendal suggested this one. You’ve rocked out to this song, right? Bowling for Soup’s “1985”? Spoileriffic for both recent Hellsing chapters and Hellsing: The Dawn.

Walter just stopped the car
From here he can’t go far
(Bost does not know why
Just knows she must get by)

His plans went out the door
He’s seen that man before
Although it’s been so long
He knows he can’t be wrong

When he was young he beat a werewolf
When he was young he stormed the base
When he was young he snuck inside
And completely wrecked the place

But now he can see
That long-lost enemy
Looks back across his life
And knows he must end the fight

From that plane drop
In Poland
Just him and a coffin
There were vampires
And werewolves
And humans with forsaken souls

His partner
Alucard
Remarks that he’s fallen far
But he was
So strong before
In nineteen — nineteen — nienteen forty-four

He fought lots of Nazis
He broke out the wire
Vampires, ghouls, soldiers, and freaks
All at his hands expired

He fought true undead
The Valentines should have just fled
Poor Jan had no chance
When Walter took his fighting stance

Where’s the army that
Can fight him?
And whewre’s the one he never beat?
(And did he bite him?)

When did these muddling freaks
Become elites?
Whatever happened to
Captain — Oh no — I guess now we know

From that base
In Poland
Just him and a coffin
There were vampires
And werewolves
And humans with forsaken souls

His partner
Alucard
Remarks that he’s fallen far
But he was
So strong before
In nineteen — nineteen — nienteen forty-four

Time goes on
He grows old
Then someone appears who makes his blood run cold
His old opponent
Blocking the road there
Making him stop, stop, stop —

And fight like he did
In Poland
Just him and a coffin
There were vampires
And werewolves
And humans with forsaken souls

His partner
Alucard
Remarks that he’s fallen far
But he was
So strong before
In nineteen — nineteen — nienteen forty-four