Ashes of Kobol

Verse 1

Printed it in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special #8 on the shelf before your eyes

Twenty-three issues monthly through the run

McKenzie writin' Simonson drawin' 'til the story was done

Cold for a while then Maximum lit July ninety-five

Hatch and Liefeld bringin' the whole fleet alive

War of Eden four books strong and wavin'

Realm kept the flame in '98 then they went on savin'

Pre-Chorus

Dynamite's held the charter since 2006

Classic and reimagined on the same altar mix

Keepin' that frakkin' fire burnin' in the rifts

Chorus

Oh driftin' through the red eye of a Cylon

Adama dreamin' in the Memory Machine

Starbuck lost on Scavenger World with the pirate queen

Jolly got the map to Earth in his hazy dream

Light it up Viper rollin' slow

Twelve colonies gone in a purple glow

Verse 2

Commander laid out from six through twelve dreamin'

Kobol scriptures floatin' in a cosmic screen

Apollo took the chair in later years

Leadin' toward the target through the maximum fears

Starbuck the space cowboy cigar still burnin'

Sold to Eurayle just to keep the fleet turnin'

Athena on comms Boomer in the trench below

Jolly found the coordinates in twenty-two and twenty-three the glow

Pre-Chorus

Baltar grinnin' with Lucifer right at his side

Count Iblis with the devil eyes open wide

Sheba with a blaster ridin' the divide

Chorus

Oh driftin' through the red eye of a Cylon

Adama dreamin' in the Memory Machine

Starbuck lost on Scavenger World with the pirate queen

Jolly got the map to Earth in his hazy dream

Light it up Viper rollin' slow

Twelve colonies gone in a purple glow

Verse 3

War of Eden Baltar fleet attacks

Sheba shoots Apollo in the back

Seraphs bring the Pegasus through the wrack

Adama finally dies in that cosmic crack

Abnett brought the Death of Apollo arc

Voice from the past pullin' through the dark

Cylon Apocalypse and the stealth black

Galactica meets Galactica in one timeline stack

Bridge

Marvel couldn't use Lost Planet so they built their own Kobol

Realm ran two seasons in three issues and a roll

Dynamite holds both worlds on the same burnin' coal

Chorus

So pass me the charts to Earth I can't read the stars

Lost on the flip side of Kobol two Vipers and three bars

Adama's dreamin' Apollo's dyin' Starbuck's always leavin'

But the comics keep the fleet alive when we stop believin'

Light it up Viper rollin' slow

Twelve colonies gone in a purple glow

Light it up let the Tylium burn low

So say we all in slow-mo