• Side 3 Release

    Side 3 is OUT; see the sidebar!

  • Connect the Dots

    www.climatedots.org

  • Side 2 lyrics

    Nukular

    I’m the god of everything
    Except for what is happening
    Brain waves believe it
    Nowhere; see it
    I’m evolutionary
    Developed autonomy
    Brazen in dreams
    Frozen, it seems
    I discovered a theory
    Equates to totality
    Probability, not happy ’til it’s wasted

    Blot out the sky,
    Rub out space-time,
    By closing my eyes
    Beneath my eyelids,
    I’ll make it darker than it’s ever been

    Behold the sirens
    Here comes the silence

    I watch the sun rise for the first time
    I watch the sun die,
    I watch the sun rise!

    Behold the sirens
    Here comes the silence

    All Tied Up

    All tied up in a basket
    With a stranger, on a doorstep
    (“All eyes half-mast!”)
    Your flag,
    You better wear your flag in the right pocket
    It’s like a big beat breaking,
    Like a big beat break
    Like a line you’re saving for a big beat break

    You see the black left pocket,
    See the orange right,
    Like a siren, walking

    It’s like a big beat breaking
    Like a big beat break over a sign you’re waving
    For a big beat break

    You better wear your flag all tied up

    Don’t Get Off The Floor

    Her ice age could clear up
    Hustle could tear up
    Red, she’s subconsciously red

    Get straight – Don’t get off the floor
    Make weight – It’s not a question

    San Andreas in minutes
    Pressure is building
    Red, she’s subconsciously red
    Make a confession

    Get straight – Don’t get off the floor

    I’m taking the stage and kicking your brain in
    I’m melting faces, killing the nothing
    Making you pay, I’m kicking brains in
    Fucking I’m killing your face, I’m bringing the pain

    Red, she’s subconsciously red
    I see red

    Get straight – Don’t get off the floor

    Cold Burn

    Start it, cold
    Your man is on the wire
    Driving, the phone – heavy on your thigh
    You got it, girl
    Sanguine in the snow

    Burn me with the silver and cold

    Tires and chrome
    Is that a .45?
    Power,
    Power and smoke
    You dirtied rock & roll
    Saw you; liked it

    Take me to the water and gold

    Burn. Me. With. The. Silver

  • Side 2 Release

    It’s out; see the sidebar, or http://marslights.bandcamp.com .  Bandcamp is an experiment for us; let us know what you think. -h

  • You On “Side 2”

    This is your chance to get on a Mars Lights track or two; come on over and do some shouting on a couple songs for “Side 2.”  Gang background vocal stuff, “Hey!” and “Get straight!” and that sort of thing, maybe 60 minutes of recording in KC MO, evening or weekend.  Contact us privately, or via comments here (your email is visible to us but is not published on the site) if you’re interested.

  • Side 1 lyrics

    Straight Talking Straight Shots

    Straight talking straight shots – there they go again!
    Newsmen and talking heads – “Authenticity!”
    See the war down to the wire, every time, if they can
    There they go!

    I want a touch…

    There’s a pattern, lover; red guns emote
    Small town distraction tactics
    Don’t take your eye off –
    There they go!

    I want a touch…

    Straight talk, straight, straight shots

    Holy Blood

    Chains – or guns
    Caught – us once
    She’s my blood – One’s enough, my love

    Oh, can you hear it now?
    Dancing and dynamite boys being boys
    A real rumble in the underground

    Beat – the fuzz
    Safe –
    For us
    Soft, what light… ?

    Oh, can you hear it now?
    Lead us not into a riot

    Can you hear it in the underground?

    White Flight (So Pretty)

    Ooo-oo – It’s a death trap, I would say
    Sharp enough that there’s no pain

    Ooo-oo – Disconnection’s frightening pace
    The phone is silent, there’s no tone
    Does it hurt to share the blame?
    Drop the pretense, I might call

    Grounded in real
    Feel the seal between your eyes

    Damn Hell Yes

    Don’t need you the same, you ought to know
    Blood will try to bury you
    Don’t need you to stay
    Drive – we got to run
    She’s a moving shot on the road

    Damn hell yes:
    – We like that foreign oil and “God bless…”
    – We’ll take our wives hot with star kids
    – Laser bombs, hearts and minds
    – Cheap hands and fine wine
    – We want it now

    I want you to wait, sight them down, and
    Fire when you see them white
    Watching the trace, and the phosphor lines
    Back in the tank
    Back on the chase

    Damn hell yes we want it right now – Damn hell yes!

    Break This Dollar (Second Blues)

    Anodyne vision clouding the CapEx
    You’ll never sell these silly situational accents
    Break this dollar
    Make it make sense

    You got to get out…

    Haven’t eaten anything
    I want to know how far the rules can bend
    It’s an expression of their buckets and bins
    I want to know…

    Break this dollar

    You got to get out to get in
    I’m busting out, break the skin
    And split it!

    Break this dollar

  • HERE ARE SOME SONGS

    Nov/Dec 2007 – July 5, 2011. That’s almost four years spent bringing you the jams on Mars Lights’ “Side 1,” now posted for free download over to your left.

    Here we come. Don’t lose it all at once. -h

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  • Three songs

    “Straight Shots (Drum Fills),” “Holy Blood,” and “White Flight (So Pretty)” are streaming over to your left.  The mixes are not quite finished…  -h

  • 2007-2011

    • Practice (pissed Drew’s neighbor off, no cops) (yet)
    • Decided to handle our own vocals
    • Good beer. Often, curry too
    • Bought a lot of gear (amps & basses) (& effects)
    • Recorded 11 songs at home
    • Demo’d more
    • Intricacy of naming process rivaled that of European social democracies’ runoff voting (should post the list we went through to get here)
    • Almost four years sounds longer than it has felt
    • See you out there