Skeletons On Mars

Descending the ladder
Boots on the surface, triangulating command and control
No visible life signs
Lower the vehicle and the medical drones

Cold iron, blood-red
Persephone, do thee wed?
Mortal nations, Olympus Mons
Add another skeleton on Mars

Anomalous signal
Strangely familiar, yet not familiar at all
My God, that's impossible
Open the airlock, it's a-

Cold iron, blood-red
Persephone, do thee wed?
Mortal nations, Olympus Mons
Plant another skeleton on Mars

Or Ares by another name
Don't make a difference
Gonna end the same way

Don't make a difference
Gonna end the same way