no longer terrans, we leave nothing behind
no class undecomposed, no nations for to strive

the site of our traumas looks a plaything in the vast
the ares rings out with our cries
"free at last! free at last!"

one hundred egos
ten thousand relations
lovers, bewilderers
shards to forge a nation
our nation

we know who we have been, still better who we are
centurions of a new world
partisans for mars

*

we came to build it, a new world
came to learn its ways

we had ideas to live for, to give root
and people grew
and people changed

they came, they followed
they touched down for fools' gold
nothing good, and nothing true

and now they fight us
they jail us and kill friends
to break relations that we built

i'll not be a breathless avenger
i'll stay calm
forget my hate, forget my love

then I found your bones in the ashes, my best friend
the plains were rent, the mountains fell

i turned my face to their outpost above us
sign and source of mortal fear

strode up the hill
a good signal
and struck it down

the chains of phobos fall away

*

the crush of terran power forces us side by side
clarifies our common goals
until quickly we find
our cacophonic chorus united to say
that mars is not terra

qu'il ne sera jamais

the break we have made with our flight
means nothing if domination follows us here
so we shall join one to all and fight
let love soothe the ache of our fear

the euphoria of this red land
the stones and fines upon which we stand
speak of to where we belong
this is mars
this is our home

you can never go back.
you can never go back.
you can never go back.