As We Go Martian

[bnewman]

Having disposed of certain people's ambitions of Mars colonization, let's plant the seeds of a more egalitarian vision for our future on the red planet — a future we can build together if only we keep marching Martian.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Bread and Roses" by James Oppenheim, set to music by Mimi Farina

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As we go Martian, Martian

On this world as red as rust

Her mountains stark and stony

Her deserts dry as dust

 

Are touched with all the radiance

That a distant sun discloses

Yet beneath the domes are springing:

Grain and roses, grain and roses

 

As we go Martian, Martian

In common we will share

Our dignity and freedom

Like our water and our air

 

Though barren be this globe

No barren home this dome encloses

Hearts breathe as well as bodies

Plant our grain amongst the roses

 

As we go Martian, Martian

We struggle, too, for Earth

For we have not forgotten

The globe that gave us birth

 

Say our eggs are in one basket?

Then new baskets must be woven

Helping hands will plait together

Grain and roses, grain and roses

 

As we go Martian, Martian

We honor spirits past

For the dreamers who envisioned

What our toil has brought to pass

 

From Barsoom's fantastic cities

Up to NASA's probes and rovers

Forged the tools with which we'll harvest

Grain and roses, grain and roses

 

As we go Martian, Martian

We welcome a new age

The rising of the Martians

Means the turning of the page

 

Let us work and love together

On the planet we have chosen

Plains of Mars will bloom forever

Grain and roses, grain and roses