Surface of the Future

from a Man on the Moon by Good Against the Living

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A mountain
A mile
It doesn't matter in this place
The landscape barely blurs at all

A moment
A memory
A fading light forever chased
The surface of the future
Will I recall ever feature?

A mission
A milestone
A threshold crossed by powered flight
A planet poised on every word

A method
Of motion
A simple yet effective craft
To carry us beyond the reach of man

The tires kick their dust across a barren virgin world
Where no-one else has been

In front of the console
A world watches in disbelief
The camera broadcasting from the stars
The Edge of the chasm
The rille reveals it's ancient face
And lost in proportion
We stand upon the precipice

Void of all atmosphere the distant details never blur
A horizon that barely fades at all

It barely fades at all
The surface of the future
A tiny disk of blue

Mountains crack the darkest sky
These eyes have ever seen
(I can't feel me)
Through the empty air
This brilliant light
Where nothing can live
And everything will die

I placed your precious photograph down there
In the wretched dust
And took one last look at the world of the future

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from a Man on the Moon, released August 5, 2017

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