Silicon Surface

Travelers through space.
Cosmic twists in fate.
We're searching for a home.
And we've come to this place.

A barren world of stone.
Wasteland dry as bone.
On this dead world's face.
We are not alone.

The cruel desert stares me down.
The mountain's rock face mocks me now.
Under endless stars, this is where I land.
So from its sands I build my crown.

Freezing night times, workers strand.
Burning days, baked on the sand.
Incinerated by glowing red hot mounds.
Drowned in toxic pools, we need a plan.

We are dying.
On this silicon surface.

Exiles from the stars.
Mutineers and pioneers.
Sailing oceans black.
Wherever we may steer.
Running from the darkness.
In our own hearts.
Never to return.
To where our journey starts.

We're running out of power, we can't breath.
I know there must be some life we can lead.
To the trembling ground, I now realize.
We must begin to look beneath.

Power up the drills, we'll see what lies.
Under our feet, we're short on time.
I can taste it now, hope is in my reach.
Somewhere far below us is the light.

We're surviving.
On this silicon surface.

Exiles from the stars.
Mutineers and pioneers.
Sailing oceans black.
Wherever we may steer.
Running from the darkness.
In our own hearts.
Never to return.
To where our journey starts.

So we dig into the planet's crust.
In search of our new light.
Something down here's beating.
A giant heart's what it sounds like.

Past the glacial highways.
Into the unknown.
We come across a wretched hive.
Some unholy creature's home.

Giant spiders snapping jaws.
Ground shakes when they walk.
But we can see deep in their web.
Another layer of rock.

Boring through the glassy shell.
We reach the inner core.
Insects born of hate and hell.
Declare on us their war.

Fighting past the monsters.
To the inner most.
Machine sharks in the magma.
Toxic lizards on the coast.

Collecting all the energy.
In spite of all we face.
Returning to the mother ship.
As heroes of our race.

Now we're thriving.
On this silicon surface.

Exiles from the stars.
Mutineers and pioneers.
Sailing oceans black.
Wherever we may steer.
Running from the darkness.
In our own hearts.
Never to return.
To where our journey starts.

Exiles from the stars.
Mutineers and pioneers.
Sailing oceans black.
Wherever we may steer.
Running from the darkness.
In our own hearts.
Never to return.
To where our journey starts.