Light It Up in Slow-Mo

Verse 1

Well they printed it first in '78, magazine size

Marvel Super Special number eight, Saga of a Star World alive

Then they gave us 23 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 and Richard Hatch bringin' the fleet to drive

War of Eden in December four books strong

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

Since 2006 Dynamite holds the charter

Classic and reimagined 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' Kobol scripture on a cosmic screen

His boy Apollo took the chair in later years

Led us toward Earth in Maximum's fears

Starbuck the space cowboy cigar still lit

Sold himself to Eurayle just to save the fleet

Left behind on Scavenger World alone

Athena on comms Boomer in the trench Jolly the quiet one

'Cause in twenty-two and twenty-three he found the end

The coordinates for Earth the plan they never showed on TV

Baltar grinnin' with Lucifer at his side

Count Iblis with the devil eyes

Sheba with a blaster Cain on the Pegasus

Ridin' back through Seraph light

Pre-Chorus

Every page a long-lost broadcast

Every panel a signal that never passed

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 Adama goin' way back

And the ultimate high-dea Galactica versus Galactica

Seventy-eight crew meet the two-thousand-four in one timeline crack

Bridge

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

So they built their own Kobol out of stardust and odds

Realm did Season Two Season Three three issues and static

Dynamite gave us both continuities on the same hash pipe magic

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