Viper Rollin' Slow

Verse 1

Well they printed it first in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special number eight, Saga of a Star World before your eyes

Then they gave us 23 issues monthly '79 to '81

McKenzie writin', Simonson drawin', runnin' till the story was done

It went cold then Maximum lit up in July of 95

Rob Liefeld and Richard Hatch bringin' the fleet alive

War of Eden, trade paper in December, four books strong

Realm tried to keep the light in '98 then it was gone

Chorus

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 Adama in the Memory Machine laid out from six to twelve

Dreamin' of Kobol scriptures in a cosmic haze

His boy Apollo took the chair in the later years

Commander Apollo leadin' us toward Earth in Maximum's fears

Starbuck the space cowboy, cigar still lit

Sold himself to Eurayle the pirate, left behind on Scavenger World

Athena on comms, Boomer in the trench

Jolly the quiet one who finally found the end

Pre-Chorus

And in twenty-two and twenty-three he finds romance

And the long-lost coordinates that never got a chance

Chorus

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's fleet attacks, Sheba shoots Apollo in the back

Seraphs bring the Pegasus and Cain across, Adama dies in that cosmic wrack

Then Abnett came with Death of Apollo, ten years out the war was through

But a voice from the past, a twist of fate, drags Galactica back into the blue

Cylon Apocalypse, Ghost Squadron in stealth black

Starbuck solo books and Origins goin' way back

The ultimate high-dea, Galactica versus Galactica

Seventy-eight crew meet two thousand four in one timeline crack

Pre-Chorus

Marvel couldn't use nothin' after Lost Planet of the Gods

So they made their own Kobol up in the stars

Chorus

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

Bridge

Yeah

Realm did Season Two, Season Three, three issues and static

Dynamite gave us both continuities

Old-school chrome and skin-job on the same hash pipe

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

Outro

We're lost on the flip side of Kobol with two Vipers and three bars

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

But the comics keep the fleet alive every time we stop believin'

Light it up, let the Tylium burn low

So say we all in slow-mo

So say we all in slow-mo