Purple Glow

Verse 1

Printed it first in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special number eight

Saga of a Star World right before your eyes

Then twenty-three issues, ninety-one through eighty-one

McKenzie writin', Simonson drawin'

Runnin' till the story was done

Then it went cold

Maximum lit the fuse in ninety-five

Liefeld and Hatch bringin' the fleet alive

War of Eden, four books strong

Realm tried to keep it burnin' in ninety-eight

Search for Sanctuary

Then the light was gone

Chorus

Ohhhhh driftin' through the red eye of a Cylon

Adama dreamin' in the Memory Machine

Starbuck lost 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 laid out in the machine

Dreamin' Kobol scriptures in a cosmic haze

From issue six to twelve he's gone

Apollo takes the chair in the later years

Leadin' toward Earth through Maximum's fears

Found his father's war and carried on

Starbuck the cowboy with his cigar still lit

Sold himself to Eurayle to save the fleet

Left behind on Scavenger World

Athena on comms and Boomer in the trench

Jolly the quiet one who found the end

In twenty-two and twenty-three

He found romance and the long-lost coordinates

The ending TV never got to see

Chorus

Ohhhhh driftin' through the red eye of a Cylon

Adama dreamin' in the Memory Machine

Starbuck lost 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

Remember War of Eden, Baltar's fleet attack

Sheba put a blaster in Apollo's back

Seraphs brought the Pegasus and Cain across

Adama finally died in that cosmic loss

Then Abnett came with Death of Apollo

Ten years out the fleet thought the war was done

But a voice from the past came draggin' back

Galactica headin' for the sun

Cylon Apocalypse, Ghost Squadron in black

Starbuck solo books and Origins goin' way back

The ultimate high concept in one timeline crack

Seventy-eight crew meets two-thousand-four

Same frakkin' fire on the same hash pipe floor

Bridge

Marvel couldn't touch Lost Planet of the Gods

So they built their own Kobol in the haze

Realm ran two seasons, three issues of static

Dynamite holds both worlds on the same altar

Old chrome Cylons and skin-job Cylons

Sharin' one purple haze

Chorus

Ohhhhh driftin' through the red eye of a Cylon

Adama dreamin' in the Memory Machine

Starbuck lost 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

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' and Apollos 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