Moon Miner - Ben Sollee

Luna twilight, dying day

Shadows linger on as sunlight slowly fades

Darkness deepens as night is drawn

And it’s so very long until another dawn

A lunar miner stirs in his converted canister

Rubs his eyes and glances at the time

Another day, another shift —

Tons of rock to dig and lift —

Moving 'dozers through the shallow lunar mines

Clocks are just for keeping schedules defined

The rugged miners claim

A man can go insane

Seven days of sunshine and seven more to go

And midnight madness mars the beauty of the stars

Darkness is forever, Luna turns so very slow

Then a hundred pairs of eyes

Are drawn to the skies

Scanning the horizon, anticipating Earthrise

Eighteen months a tour, lunar miners must endure

Many hardships, and the work is never done

Mine a million tons of ore

Every year, to tame the power of the sun

Their spirit kept alive

With hope of the future and a dream of Island One

Luna sunrise, darkness wanes

Cold and gray, dawn crawls across the plain

Blinding glare glistens on the crater rim

And it’s so very long until the sun goes down again

And it’s so very long until the sun goes down again

And it’s so very long

Until the sun goes down