Call me no rank
My name is now forever gone
Never to be retrieved
I'm sky buried
Into an orbit no one knows
And no one ever will

Failure when the retrorockets backfired
Messages not received by ground control
Astray on a route beyond returning
Blue dot way too far to become hope

Our final words never written
No cenotaph, no report
We are the ones never to be rewarded
I am the lost cosmonaut
We are the ones never to be rewarded
I am the lost cosmonaut

Left to wait for certain death as my life support runs out
Edited out of history, now I'm gone beyond all doubt
My spacecraft's a sarcophagus as I drift away from sight
What my eyes saw is yet to be described

Our final words never written
No cenotaph, no report
We are the ones never to be rewarded
I am the lost cosmonaut
We are the ones never to be rewarded
I am the lost cosmonaut