last cowboy on mars

Dust devils spin on Olympus plains

Red sunset burning through methane rains

A rusted rover by an old cantina sign

And a lonely radio counting borrowed time

He rides a solar horse of steel and chrome

Six-shooter lasers hanging by his coat

No cattle left, no towns to save

Just ghosts inside the terraformed domes

And they say

The last cowboy on Mars

Still follows dying stars

Across the silent valleys

And abandoned satellite yards

He sings old country songs

To a world that moved too far

Just one forgotten drifter

The last cowboy on Mars

His hat’s held together by magnetic thread

He sleeps beside reactors glowing blue instead

The Earth he knew became a memory stream

A faded transmission in a broken dream

The corporations came and mined the bones

Built their kingdoms high above the stones

Then packed their bags when the water failed

Leaving neon churches and empty rails

And they say

The last cowboy on Mars

Still follows dying stars

Across the silent valleys

And abandoned satellite yards

He sings old country songs

To a world that moved too far

Just one forgotten drifter

The last cowboy on Mars

At night he watches Phobos crawl

Like an omen hanging small

And every crater knows his name

Though nobody recalls

One final horse beneath two moons

One final man humming old saloon tunes

When the oxygen fades and the engines stall

He’ll tip his hat to the end of it all

And they’ll say

The last cowboy on Mars

Finally rode beyond the stars

Through the cold and crimson dark

Past the graveyards of our wars

Still singing old Earth songs

Where lonely souls are

Forever rides the drifter

The last cowboy on Mars