Ashes of Kobol

Verse 1

Printed first in a magazine back in seventy-eight

Marvel Super Special number eight

Saga of a Star World right before your eyes

Twenty-three issues from seventy-nine to eighty-one

McKenzie writin Simonson drawin till the story was done

It went cold then Maximum fired up in ninety-five

Liefeld and Hatch bringin the fleet alive

War of Eden December trade paper four books strong

Realm searched for sanctuary in ninety-eight

Then the light went gone

Dynamite holds the charter since two-thousand-six

Classic and reimagined on the same altar

Keepin that fire lit

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

Commander Adama in the machine

Laid out from six to twelve dreamin bout Kobol scriptures

Apollo took the chair in the later years

Leadin us toward Earth through Maximum's fears

Starbuck the space cowboy cigar still lit

Sold himself to Eurayle just to save the whole fleet

Left behind on Scavenger World alone

Athena on comms Boomer in the trench

Jolly the quiet one who found the end

In twenty-two and twenty-three

Jolly finds romance and the coords for Earth

The planned ending never shown on TV

Baltar grinnin with Lucifer beside

Count Iblis with the devil eyes

Pre-Chorus

Sheba with a blaster

Cain on the Pegasus

Ridin back 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

Verse 3

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

Cylon Apocalypse Ghost Squadron black

Starbuck solo books Origins goin way back

And the ultimate high-dea of the whole damn line

Galactica meets Galactica one timeline

Bridge

Yeah Marvel made their own Kobol after Lost Planet

Realm did those seasons three issues of static

Dynamite gave us both continuities

Chrome Cylons and skin-jobs on the same hash pipe

Final Chorus

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 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