I am now listening to another song, Seven Wishes, by Night Ranger — best band name ever, by the way — and I am convinced the song is about nethack. Even the name Night Ranger is sort of nethackesque.
To analyze the chorus:
Rise to the sun with seven wishes
Will you turn into stone with seven wishes
And your eyes on the run with seven wishes
Seven wishes
First of all, seven is the number of wishes you get from a fully charged wand of wishing (3 to start, 3 from a blessed scroll of charging, and 1 last wish that turns the wand to dust.) The phrase “rise to the sun” is a clear reference to ascension. A somewhat popular choice for a wish in nethack is wishing for a blessed cockatrice corpse, and the inherent dangers of doing so clearly correspond to the question “Will you turn into stone with seven wishes”. I think “eyes on the run” might refer to the “run” back up the dungeon from the bottom once you have the Amulet of Yendor, always keeping an eye out for the Wizard of Yendor showing up to piss you off.
The song was released in 1985. The first version of nethack was released in 1984. Coincidence? I think not! The band members must have been addicted to the game while they were working on their latest album.
I don’t really believe any of this.