Purple Glow

Verse 1

They printed it first in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special number eight

Saga of a Star World before your eyes

Then twenty-three issues, monthly '79 to '81

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

It went cold, then Maximum lit the fuse in July '95

Liefeld and Hatch bringin' the fleet alive

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

Realm tried to keep it goin' in '98, Search for Sanctuary

Then it was gone

Dynamite took the charter in 2006, classic and reborn, both on the same altar

Keepin' that frakkin' fire since then

Chorus

Ohhhh, 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

Frakk it, frakk it, light it up

Frakk it, frakk it, light it up

Verse 2

Commander Adama in the Memory Machine, laid out from six to twelve

Dreamin' 'bout Kobol scriptures in a cosmic haze

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 just to save the fleet

Left behind on Scavenger World for it

Athena on comms, Boomer in the trench

Jolly the quiet one who finally found the end

In twenty-two and twenty-three, romance and the long-lost coordinates for Earth

The planned ending they never showed on TV

Pre-Chorus

Baltar grinnin' with Lucifer beside

Count Iblis with the devil eyes

Sheba with a blaster, Cain on the Pegasus ridin' through Seraph light

Chorus

Ohhhh, 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

Frakk it, frakk it, light it up

Frakk it, frakk it, light it up

Verse 3

You remember War of Eden, Baltar's fleet attacks

Sheba shoots Apollo in the back

Seraphs bring the Pegasus and Cain across

Adama finally 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

We got Cylon Apocalypse, Ghost Squadron in stealth black

Starbuck solo books, Origins, Adama goin' way back

And the ultimate high-dea, Galactica versus Galactica

'78 crew meet the 2004 crew in one timeline crack

Bridge

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

So they made their own Kobol

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

Dynamite gave us both continuities

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

Chorus

Ohhhh, 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

Final Chorus

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

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, 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