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This is a song about going to MARS. These days, it is easy for song lyrics to be taken the wrong way. We hope that does not happen here, as you could end up on Venus.

The song takes us through an ordinary round trip to Mars. For the sake of the intrigue of the audience, the lyrics are designed to remain somewhat ambiguous as to whether we are really going to Mars, or perhaps to a movie studio set. This type of ambiguity is a feature in several songs within the Underground Bunkum stage play and soundtrack album.

This song is in an almost-punk style, without quite the rough edges that characterized the British bands at the height of the punk movement. It is the only song in the Underground Bunkum play/album that essentially consists of a string of roughly identical verses. The music is distinguished by truly outstanding, tasteful and inventive riffs and fills by The Dog Pack lead guitarist John Moran.

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MARS

People are planning to go to Mars
It’s taken way too long
They had to privatize space travel
In case something goes wrong

Big money is betting they make it there
And bring back what they retrieve
Nobody plans to live there
Just prospect, plunder and leave

They need to prepare for winter
The ice caps will advance and retreat
Some flowers might bloom in the springtime
A year will take two years to complete

The days will be a half hour longer
The sky will be as clear as a bell
The sun will be a tad bit smaller
The night will be darker than hell

They can visit Phobos and Deimos
And be almost weightless there
Check out the loft on a nine iron
As it wafts your ball into the air

We can’t just send only rich people
There must also be some of the poor
So when Martian society gets up and running
Diversity will be assured

They hope to get back safely
There will be no plan B
They need to tough out re-entry’
And then get fished out of the sea

I wrote this song when I was a child
After the landing on the moon
I thought the future would be wild
But all we got was doom and gloom

So let’s go to Mars this time
Put up some barracks and some tents
Go moping around with your geiger counters
To pocket some pecuniary recompense
Pick up the puppy
To pocket some pecuniary recompense

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from UNDERGROUND BUNKUM, track released September 11, 2023
Composed by M.J. Berger
Performed by Gregorstan Wolforfox & The Dog Pack

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Gregorstan Wolforfox & The Dog Pack

The star of Underground Bunkum, lead singer Gregorstan Wolforfox, was born in obscurity. Where? He’s not sure – that’s why it is in obscurity! A meteoric rise, a precipitous fall, a rise from the ashes, and now this – UNDERGROUND BUNKUM front and center on the virtual stage. ... more

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