Mars II Lyrics

I've scrounged up the last hope I could find

Like cigarette butts in public ashtrays

I smoked it because I had it

But it didn't even last one drag today

They put everything you were inside an urn

At least everything you were that didn't burn

And paraphrased your life in minutes

And when they finished, the crowd turned taciturn

I heard you left and beat me to Mars

Parted the black sky and left white stick and poke scars

No starlight is out tonight

Like their young cores collapsed suddenly

Centuries before their image reached us

And yesterday was the last image we'll ever see

I don't know what you're looking for

But I know you're going to find it

On Olympus Mons

Or in Mariner Valley Depths

In these places lost from time, lost from here, lost from me

Lost from this plane that you have egressed

I heard you left and beat me to Mars

Parted the black sky and white stick and poke stars

I'm so sorry that I

Took you for granted

Thank you for believing in me

When no one else did

I hope that life is simpler on Mars

I hope you found what you reached for in the dark

You made it to Mars, and in the flesh

It took you 20 years, but it cost you the rest