Just released: “Ticket to Mars”

“Ticket to Mars”, the title track on my album of the same name, has just been released. The songs on the album are about space travel, astronauts, rockets, encounters with aliens, exploring space to find new planets, and – conversely – the conundrum of being stuck on Earth.

Ticket to Mars (Radio Edit) Lead vocals by Ben Alexander

Lyrics

Tongue-in-cheek, and somewhat cynical, as usual.

Would you go, would you go
would you go to Mexico
to see a tomb from long ago,
to join the queues
and miss the views?
Would you like to
take a trip offshore
to go where there’s
a long-running war?
Danger tourism
is quite a thing.
You could die out there.
Want to join in?
Would you be seen
Where a hurricane’s been?
Oh would you go?
Oh would you go?
See the disaster all on show?
See the disaster all on show?

CHORUS
If you have the bucks, and you know
people who would let you go,
would you go
to Mars in a rocket?
A space tourist, oh?
Would you go to see the stars?
Would you like to get to Mars?

Would you go, would you go
would you go deep down below,
into the sea, the deepest dark
where you can be
food for a shark ?
Or would you avoid
Venice and Rome,
and go where people
call rubbish dumps home?
Go film the filth
while knowing
it’s not your problem.
Want to join in?
Would you travel to
Anywhere on the globe?
Oh would you go?
Oh would you go?
Shake off the earth,
leave it far below?
Shake off the earth,
leave it far below?

Outer space; a perfect place.
Clear of the earth, like off a cliff.
So we’ll die before we arrive.
What’s the difference?
What’s the diff?

If you have the bucks, and you know
people who would let you go,
would you go
to Mars in a rocket?
A space tourist, oh?
Would you go to see the stars?
Would you like to get to Mars?