So Say We All (In Slow-Mo)

Verse 1

Well they printed it first in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special number 8, 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 up in July '95

Rob Liefeld, Richard Hatch bringin' the fleet alive

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

Realm tried to keep the light in '98 with Search for Sanctuary, then it was gone

Since 2006 Dynamite holds the charter

Classic and reimagined both on the same altar

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

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 to save the fleet

Left behind on Scavenger World, that's it

Athena on comms, Boomer in the trench, Jolly found the end

In twenty-two and twenty-three, romance and the long-lost Earth in his hand

The planned ending they never showed on TV

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

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 fleet thought 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 going way back

And the ultimate high-dea: Galactica versus Galactica

Seventy-eight 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 2, Season 3, three issues and static

Dynamite gave us both continuities

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

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