we ran into the sky on silver birds we built to fly and we so very few left it behind for something new on the world we knew as home the fires burned and water rose foolish man made dust of sand oh albatross we fell out of the stars on martian soil we tilled our hearts four hundred moons we lived as one until earth s men put out the sun on the world we knew as home the fires burned and water rose foolish man made dust of sand oh albatross waiting out the coldest days on mars 