Ashes of Kobol

Verse 1

Printed in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special number eight

Saga of a Star World before your eyes

Then twenty-three issues, '79 to '81

McKenzie writin', Simonson drawin'

Runnin' till the story was done

It went cold then Maximum lit the spark in July '95

Liefeld and Hatch bringin' the fleet alive

War of Eden trade paper, four books strong

Realm tried to keep the glow in '98

Search for Sanctuary then it was gone

Pre-Chorus

Since 2006 Dynamite holds the charter

Classic and reimagined on the same altar

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

Verse 2

Adama laid out from six to twelve

Dreamin' bout Kobol scriptures in a cosmic haze

Apollo took the chair in later years

Commandin' the fleet through Maximum's fears

Starbuck the space cowboy cigar still lit

Saved the fleet then left on Scavenger World

Athena on comms Boomer in the trench

Jolly found romance and the long-lost map

Number twenty-two and twenty-three

The ending they never showed on TV

Pre-Chorus

Baltar grinnin' with Lucifer at his side

Count Iblis with those devil eyes

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

Bridge

Yeah Marvel couldn't use nothin' after Lost Planet

So they made their own Kobol from the ash

Realm did their seasons three issues and static

Dynamite gave us both continuities

Old chrome and skin-job on the same hash pipe

Final Chorus

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

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