Deserts of Mars

On the tenth of June we landed here on Mars

And we looked up through the dust clouds to the stars

All around us lay a plain of burning sand

And a bitter wind flew out across the land

Not a single ghost was there to tell the past

Not a single lonely blade of desert grass

This is how it really feels to be alone

Only fifty million miles away from home

I have flown here through the silences of space

And I dared to set my foot upon this place

On the desert lies the shadow of a man

But the wind has blown his footprints from the sand

In the Martian night two moons rise in the sky

And the winter cold is deeper than a sigh

And the mountains here were bare since time began

And they make me feel ashamed of what I am

I have flown here through the silences of space

And I dared to set my foot upon this place

On the desert lies the shadow of a man

But the wind has blown his footprints from the sand

I have flown here through the silences of space

And I dared to set my foot upon this place

On the desert lies the shadow of a man

But the wind has blown his footprints from the sand