Coille - When It Was Called Mars Lyrics

Son, sit down
I guess we gotta talk
About this town

Take this chair
We gotta talk about
The sign you read

At Grandma's yesterday, the photo album
That's me and her in my school in autumn
Three years before it had to shut down

And when it opened again, the album
Was hidden and I couldn't find the sign
In my school, they painted it black,
They changed the rules

And it was written in a language
We couldn't speak

I saw them cutting across the sky
In 2145
And I could hear my teacher cry
And to be honest I didn't know why

Until the first bomb hit the ground
And wiped away the ground itself
I raised my head and looked around
And looked for shelter behind a shelf

Now we speak English with an accent,
Live in New Earth and drive their cars
But I still remember
When it was called Mars.

We learned that day
How cavemen and cavewomen
Came to the outer space

And how it took
Them millions of years but now
They were here for good

And through the years the photo album
Stayed in the back of the second drawer
And we made sure it couldn't be found
And now you're picking it up this autumn
And you don't know what the sign means
But you have an IPhone and call this home,
You feel it's where you belong

So I guess they got what they wanted
Right here

I saw them cutting across the sky
In 2145
And I could hear my teacher cry
And to be honest I didn't know why

Until the first bomb hit the ground
And wiped away the ground itself
I raised my head and looked around
And looked for shelter behind a shelf

Now we speak English with an accent,
Live in New Earth and drive their cars
But I still remember
When it was called Mars.

So when you pick up the photo album
Think of the stories it tells
And I will be here to keep them alive

And even when I am not around you
I hope you think of the sign
That you couldn't read, I couldn't forget
Though it's no longer here

I saw them cutting across the sky
In 2145
And could hear my teacher cry
And to be honest I didn't know why

Until the first bomb hit the ground
And wiped away the ground itself
I raised my head and looked around
And looked for shelter behind a shelf

Now they're done conquering planets
And they'll be heading for the stars
Oh, I still remember
When it was called Mars
Yeah, I still remember
When it was called Mars