Purple Glow

Intro

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Verse 1

They printed it first in '78 magazine size

Marvel Super Special number eight before your eyes

Then twenty-three issues monthly '79 to '81

McKenzie writin Simonson drawin till the story was done

It went cold then Maximum lit up in July '95

Rob Liefeld Richard Hatch bringin the fleet alive

War of Eden trade paper December four books strong

Realm tried to keep it lit in '98 then it was gone

Since 2006 Dynamite holds the charter

Classic and reimagined on the same altar

Keepin that frakkin fire burnin bright

Pre-Chorus

Lost in the pages

Lost in the haze

Twelve colonies scattered in a magazine maze

Chorus

Ohhhhh 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

Post-Chorus

Purple glow

Purple glow

Light it up let the Tylium glow

Verse 2

Commander Adama laid out from six to twelve

Dreamin Kobol scriptures in a cosmic shell

His boy Apollo took the chair in later years

Leadin us toward Earth in Maximum's fears

Starbuck the space cowboy cigar still lit

Sold himself to save the fleet and then he quit

Left behind on Scavenger World alone

Athena on comms Boomer in the trench

Jolly the quiet one who finally found the end

In twenty-two and twenty-three he found romance

And the long-lost coordinates by chance

The planned ending they never showed on TV

Pre-Chorus

Lost in the pages

Lost in the blue

Ridin Seraph light with the devil crew

Chorus

Ohhhhh 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

Post-Chorus

Purple glow

Purple glow

Light it up let the Tylium glow

Bridge

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

So they made their own Kobol on the page

Realm did Season Two Season Three three issues and static

Dynamite gave us both continuities

Chrome Cylons skin-job Cylons on the same hash pipe

Same frakkin fire

Verse 3

You remember War of Eden Baltar's fleet attacks

Sheba shoots Apollo right in the back

Seraphs bring the Pegasus and Cain across

Adama finally dies in that cosmic loss

Then Abnett came with Death of Apollo ten years out

Cylon Apocalypse Ghost Squadron in stealth black

Starbuck solo books Origins goin way back

And the ultimate high concept one timeline crack

Seventy-eight crew meet the 2004 crew in a warp

Pre-Chorus

Lost in the pages

Lost in the stars

Two Vipers glowin through the metal bars

Chorus

Ohhhhh 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

Post-Chorus

Purple glow

Purple glow

Light it up let the Tylium glow

Outro

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

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

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