Song Title: “The Storyteller” (A Frontier Ballad from Conrad Station) [Verse 1] In the dust of Conrad Station, under Earthlight cold and gray, There’s a man who spins the stories that the prospectors still say. Wiry frame and quiet grin, with scarred and steady hands, He’ll buy you a straw-cup beer and make you understand. [Chorus] Keep the old trails alive, Tell the tales of the long night and the ones who didn’t survive. From Descent into Darkness to the Thunder Moon fight, You’re the living memory of this cold lunar light. [Verse 2] He walked through CME fire when the Sun tried to kill, Kept the air scrubbers humming when the heaters went still. They told him stay out of Hab D, but he laughed and he stayed, And the station still creaks with the debts that he paid. [Chorus] Keep the old trails alive, Tell the tales of the long night and the ones who didn’t survive. From Descent into Darkness to the Thunder Moon fight, You’re the living memory of this cold lunar light. [Bridge] He ain’t no deputy with a badge on his chest, He ain’t no corporate man with a suit and a vest. He’s the man in Alex’s Bar when the night’s running long, Singing soft of the Lunadyne strike and the things that went wrong. [Verse 3] NowNow the Joyful Moon’s watching and Gen’s walking the line, But he still tells the stories that keep the frontier fine. In Mask of the Joyful Moon you’ll still hear his voice, That quiet prospector who made the hard choice. [Final Chorus] Keep the old trails alive, Tell the tales of the long night and the ones who didn’t survive. From Descent into Darkness to the Thunder Moon fight, You’re the living memory of this cold lunar light. [Outro – spoken, soft] So raise your straw-cup, friends… To the man who remembers
