[Intro]
Yeah…
Off the grid, no signal, just stars
Space cowboy, yeah, I ride where the galaxies are
Let’s get it
[Verse 1]
Blast off from the dust of a dying blue rock
Spurs on my boots and a laser on the hip, never talk
I just move through the nebula, outlaw code
No badge, no king, just the void and the road
Ship named Rocinante, painted black like the night
Hyperdrive humming while I’m counting the light
Past the asteroid belts where the pirates still prey
I tip my hat, leave a crater, then I’m on my way
Seen empires rise, seen whole systems collapse
Heard the gods of the core stations whisper my name in the static
They call me a myth, a glitch in the matrix of stars
But I’m flesh and I’m blood with a heart full of scars
From Earth to Europa, from Mars to the fringe
I collect every story the cosmos can sing
Ain’t no sheriff out here that can chain down the free
Just a cowboy and cosmos… and the cosmos is me
[Hook]
Space cowboy, space cowboy
Riding the dark where the comets deploy
No law but the stars, no home but the void
Space cowboy… forever employed by the infinite noise
Yeah, space cowboy, space cowboy
Spurs in the vacuum, heart full of joy
From the edge of the map to the birth of a sun
I’m the last real rider… and the race isn’t done
[Verse 2]
Docked at a station where the air tastes like rust
Traded stories with a cyborg who forgot how to trust
She said “You still believe in that old Western dream?”
I said “Dreams don’t need oxygen, they just need the seam
Between what they told us and what we become”
Then I tipped my visor and I loaded the gun
Not for killing, for the silence that follows the shot
When the whole damn sector remembers you not
I’ve raced solar winds with smugglers and saints
Lost a good AI partner to a black-hole’s restraints
Still hear her voice in the static at night
“Keep riding, kid… don’t you ever lose the light”
So I ride for the ones who got left in the cold
For the planets that got bought and the futures they sold
Every jump is a verse, every star is a bar
And the universe better respect who we are
[Hook]
Space cowboy, space cowboy
Riding the dark where the comets deploy
No law but the stars, no home but the void
Space cowboy… forever employed by the infinite noise
Yeah, space cowboy, space cowboy
Spurs in the vacuum, heart full of joy
From the edge of the map to the birth of a sun
I’m the last real rider… and the race isn’t done
[Bridge]
They said the frontier was closed, that the age of the free was a myth
But I found a new West in the places they missed
Where gravity’s optional and hope still exists
I’m living proof that the cowboy never quits
[Outro]
Yeah…
Log on from the outer rim
Still that same kid staring up, wondering if the stars ever blink back
They do.
Keep riding.
Peace.
