Story Behind The Song
I was driving up Highway 5 one summer in my 1959 turquoise and white T-bird. I had been in love with the words Mars Needs Women for years though I didn't know it was a movie back in the early 60's. I wanted to name a band Mars Needs Women and suddenly i
Song Description
On earth it's the white hot summer of 1955. On Mars it's time do something about a sudden and radical shortage of what Martian men regard as the stronger . . women. Johnny Ray Gun is sent to earth on a mission to kidnap an earth woman for breeding purpo
| Song Length |
4:36 |
Genre |
Jazz - Bebop, Jazz - Swing |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Similar Artists |
Harry Connick Jr. |
| |
Lyrics
Mars Needs Women
"Poodles & Rockets"
Was the perfume she wears
Standin? there in her very large hair
All leopard skin pill box and rhinestone cool . . .
There was baritone sax bleedin? jazz tattoos
Stratocaster stains on the bartenders shoes
Poets pleadin? Kerouac, callin? it truth
Haven't seen it since, have you?
It was 1 9 5 5
Hollywood & Vine
Lipstick case at the scene of the crime
A message on the mirror in the ladies room
Cops filed it missing . . . but cool
She had doors on her attitude
He said 'I'm drinkin' Manhattans what about you?'
She said 'Cool ain't nobody?s hard fast rule'. . .
She had a thing for B-movie black and white
He said 'The saucers have landed, mine's just outside
Mars needs women, she said 'Ain't it the truth'
Haven't seen her since, have you?
It was 1 9 5 5
Hollywood & Vine
?MARS NEEDS WOMEN?
At the scene of the crime
Was the message on the mirror in the ladies room
Cops filed it kidnapped . . . but cool
The fix was in
People were paid
Even the tabloids misspelled her name
Some people call it yesterday?s news
But I haven't seen her since have you?
I haven't seen her since have you?
I haven't seen her . . .