Magnetic boots on cold deck plates
Vacuum sings a low hymn
Each step pays the silent debt
Reactor pulse keeps perfect time
Airlock cycles green to red Oxygen scrubbers scream
I tally every living thread
Steel threshold takes its toll tonight
Footfall shadows cut the light
No credits for the ones who stay
Just carbon scoring on the way
Steel threshold takes its toll
Thruster wash burns hull plates clean
Ion trails write psalms in dust
Tether lines hold fragile trust
Radiation badges count cost
Pressure gauges spike and fall
Hull stress fractures breathe
I watch them answer every call
Steel threshold takes its toll tonight
Footfall shadows cut the light
No credits for the ones who stay
Just carbon scoring on the way
Steel threshold takes its toll
Hangar bay holds secrets deep
Maintenance drones never sleep
Twelve thousand four hundred souls
Each leaves pieces of their whole
No prayer book saves the ones who fly
Only metal teeth and vacuum sky
Six strings scream through pressure walls
Count them in count them all
Steel threshold takes its toll tonight
Footfall shadows cut the light
No credits for the ones who stay
Just carbon scoring on the way
Steel threshold takes its toll
Steel threshold takes its toll
Steel threshold takes its toll
Count them in count them whole
Steel threshold takes its toll
