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