Red Rust & Regret

Footsteps echo, red dust on my boots

A billion miles, memories dilute

Steel walls hum, the silence screams

Their laughter's a ghost in my Martian dreams

Time moves slow, but they grow fast

Snapshots fade, the moments don’t last

Planted a flag, but lost my place

Their childhoods drift in this endless space

One more day one more sol

This red rock’s getting old

No more stories to be told

Every star’s a wish I can’t send

Every sunrise feels like the end

A life without a father to depend

Ooo God do I miss my children

I built a new world, but I lost my own

Father of a planet, yet I’m still alone

Their faces blur in the Martian glow

Missing every moment as they grow

I sweat, I bleed, I scream but they’ll never know

I loved them far more than I could show

Wrote their names in the Martian sand

The wind erased them, just like my hand

Their voices play through a static storm

Holograms flicker, can’t keep me warm

Orbiting guilt in a crimson haze

Missed the school plays, the birthdays, the gaze

The gravity here pulls at my heart

Every mission ends with us further apart

One more day one more sol

This red rock’s getting old

No more stories to be told

Every star’s a wish I can’t send

Every sunrise feels like the end

A life without a father to depend

Ooo God do I miss my children

I built a new world, but I lost my own

Father of a planet, yet I’m still alone

Their faces blur in the Martian glow

Missing every moment as they grow

I sweat, I bleed, I scream but they’ll never know

I loved them far more than I could ever show

All that I gave, I did for humanity

But ooo god the space is killing me

Feeling light years away, regret in this day

Mmmm I’m missing you missing me

Cause this rest rust and regret

All the time spent, space time and years

Causing me to forget

Voices fade to whispers, faces washed away

Oh god, I beg, Mission Control

Please don’t make me stay

One more day one more sol

This red rock’s getting old

No more stories to be told

Every star’s a wish I can’t send

Every sunrise feels like the end

A life without a father to depend

Ooo God do I miss my children

I built a new world, but I lost my own

Father of a planet, yet I’m still alone

Their faces blur in the Martian glow

Missing every moment as they grow

I sweat, I bleed, I scream but they’ll never know

I loved them far more than I could ever show

Rockets ignite

Stars shimmer in the night

Children glimmer in light

Fireflies of the sky

Burn up when they die

Oh god please tell me why why why

Mmmmmm

Goodnight goodbye