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[jtthomas]

Gotta write the melody after class today (update: melody written, will record tomorrow). But yeah. This. Saw it on Twitter and now I'm really sad.

Goodnight Oppy, little rover.
Now your time with us is over.
All alone in the red red dust
But we knew you trusted us.
All you've touched and seen and heard
For forty-five kilometers
Is what will get us there someday
To see you again up close, okay?

(chorus)
Oppy, thank you now and forever
Lasting five thousand days on Mars.
We won't forget you, never ever,
Though this day might still be hard.

Oppy, someday we will find you
If it's the last thing we can do.
Dust storms aren't enough to stop
A rover if we clean your top.
Winter's cold and bleak and scary
But in your soul, we know you carry
Everything we want to be.
--Oppy, please respond to me.--

(chorus)

(bridge)
Now it's cold and your battery is low,
Dark and scary winter's coming
But we remember years ago
When you proved us wrong and kept on gunning
You took your Opportunity
And proved to us how strong you were
So we will remember you before the
Static in that final picture.

(chorus, substitute final line)
For we reach for other stars.

We'll miss you, Opportunity.
You're everything we want to be.
So goodnight, Opportunity.
--Oppy, please respond to me.--