Descent Protocol Songtext
von HofB

Copper clouds like a closing fist
Heat so loud it begins to hiss
We felt the layers no light could breach
Chasing signals we could never reach
You and I were a coded fate
Written long before our launch date
Every forecast said we′d break apart
But we kept orbiting a dying heart

All alarms hit a rising scream
Pressure folding every seam
Still we burned through the poisoned air
Two doomed systems unaware

Like a probe on Venus, falling blind
Crushed by forces we could never outclimb
We had seconds of meaning before the dark pulled through
But I kept reaching out to you


Acid winds carved the final scars
Sky like rust over shattered stars
We touched down knowing the end was near
Still we whispered through the atmosphere
You were gravity I couldn't leave
Pulling harder than I could believe
Even knowing that the crush was fate
I stayed tethered to your weight

Warning lights in a dying glow
Systems failing row by row
Still we held to the final spark
Two lost signals in the dark

Like a probe on Venus, breaking down
Every promise buried under hostile ground
We had moments of contact before the silence grew
And I still tried to reach you

Maybe some worlds were never meant
For anything fragile or innocent
But we kept falling all the same
A doomed trajectory with no one to blame

Like a probe on Venus, crushed in place
No escape from the weight we chose to face
Just a flicker of light before the circuits blew
And even then, I reached for you

We were never built to survive that sky
But we still
We still made the fatal drive