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 s...