Getting Dark (Song For A Mars Rover) Lyrics

Countdown to liftoff

Knowing you and I'd be worlds apart

Expectations were a couple months at most

We would do our level best to carry on

A fire lit, a rumbling down below

The sky above unfolds, and it's getting dark

We made it farther

Than anybody ever could have hoped

The starlight filled us up til we could step beyond

The limits everybody said would take their toll

We opened up a whole world to explore

Together, just a light on in the dark

A storm on the horizon

And all that you could do was watch

While I was overwhelmed

Until there was nothing I could say but

My battery is low and it's getting dark

You tried to hold on

But weeks turned into months still out of reach

And then the moment when you finally sang goodbye

I was too far gone for you to hear me

But the mourning sunlight lit the heart inside

A final pulse, a glimmer in the dark

The sky above unfolds, and it's getting dark

Together, just a light on in the dark

My battery is low and it's getting dark