Although “dragonaut” does not appear in typical dictionaries, and its definition varies upon which fantasy text you are looking at, a typical definition for it (and one highly relevant to this song) is one who pilots a dragon.
It would be comparable to words like “astronaut”: etymologically, the pr...
Ride the dragon toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars' red sky
The reptile pushes itself out into space
Leaving behind the human race
Swim inside the solar seas
The Nebula cries out to me
Passing where I've gone before
I fly on through the crimson door
Ride the dragon toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars red sky
Dragonaut was written by Sleep.
Dragonaut was produced by Billy Anderson.