Aldrin Cycler - The Bells on Mars

Verse 1

Red dust on the windowsill

Cold steel houses on a crimson hill

We hauled our heavy hearts across the sky

Every grudge and every lullaby

Chorus

Ring the bells on Mars tonight

Old Earth songs in borrowed light

All our baggage and our grace

Find a home in this new place

Verse 2

Granma's recipe for pie

Sketched inside a cargo crate

Uncle's stubborn streak survived

Next to hymns we memorized

Pre-Chorus

Settlers from a dying star

Carried every scar

Chorus

Ring the bells on Mars tonight

Old Earth songs in borrowed light

All our baggage and our grace

Find a home in this new place

Bridge

Hope rides on a rocket trail

Love survives the frozen air

Tiny church on dusty ground

Someone hums a carol there

Chorus

Ring the bells on Mars tonight

Old Earth songs in borrowed light

All our baggage and our grace

Find a home in this new place

Outro

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Big Band Brass

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Da-da-da-da-da

trumpets cut through winter's call

every note we smuggled here turns the silence into cheer

saxophones and cabin light

we brought our songs from home all night

old arrangements charts of gold

play the hymn he's growing bold

from the past we borrowed hope

taught or children how to code

ring the bells on mars tonight

old earth songs and borrowed light

ring the bells on mars tonight

da da da da da

can you feel it in the ground?

can you hear oh? is the old world lost and gone?

is it gone?