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Let's Go To Mars

by John Staples

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This is a protest song. I am protesting wasting money on Mars missions!

So first, let me be perfectly clear I LOVE SCIENCE! Facts are always preferably to myths and horseshit!

However, I am not a huge fan of spending enormous amounts of money ($2.7 billion) to send instruments to Mars. I understand the quest for knowledge. I get that. And I understand the thrill of the rockets and that moment when maybe the lander won't land, etc. But people died this week in Texas from simple neglected infrastructure. And people starve every single day. And they die uneccessarily from disease.

And don't start telling me how some day we will need to colonize Mars. BULLSHIT! We have a perfectly good planet right now that could last us billions of years unless we screw it up! And FYI, Mars is already SCREWED UP! No air. No water. Freezing temps. No trees. No animals. Just a fuckton of red sand.

In fact, as my song says, Mars gives us a good look at what Earth will become if we don't get our act together! Why in the world would we be looking to move from paradise to a shithole when we could just work a little harder to stop screwing up paradise?

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Let's Go To Mars

On Thursday we went all the way to Mars
cost us almost $3 billion to park our car
We might just learn if life there
ever existed
plus we get to see how Earth will look
if we don't fuckin' fix it

Let's go to Mars
Let's take a car
We'll fill some jars
With that lovely red dead dirt
It's cold and sunny
And that ain't funny
We spent our money
Instead of helping all the people
back down here on planet Earth

The scientists at NASA got excited
Those rockets that they built were well ignited
They planned the trip to Mars,
a complicated nexus
While Earthlings froze to death down here
deep in the heart of Texas

Let's go to Mars
Let's take a car
We'll fill some jars
With that lovely red dead dirt
It's cold and sunny
And that ain't funny
We spent our money
Instead of helping all the people
back down here on planet Earth

Mars is far worse than Earth
Instead let's save the planet of our birth
Open up your eyes and you will see
Mars will never be our plan-et B

Don't go to Mars
Don't take no cars
Don't fill no jars
With that lovely red dead dirt
It's cold and sunny
And that ain't funny
We'll save our money
And instead we'll help all of the people
back down here on planet Earth
yeah instead we'll help all of the people
back down here on planet Earth
I wish we'd all just help all of the people
back down here on Mother Earth

© 2021 John Staples
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released February 20, 2021
written, performed and produced by John Staples

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John Staples Chicago, Illinois

John's music mirrors the full range of human emotion from joy to despair! He writes in a wide range of genres from 21st- Century Americana to Classic Rock! John has been described as a "darker Johnny Cash" & has been compared to Gordon Lightfoot, John Prine, Jerry Garcia, and Bob Seger. Fans say, "beautiful & honest", "deep & cryptic yet crystal clear", and "Painful & beautiful at the same time!". ... more

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