Purple Glow

Verse 1

Printed in '78 at magazine size

Marvel Super Special #8 above the stacks

McKenzie writin' Simonson drawin' line by line

Twenty-three issues and the story never cracked

It went cold then Maximum lit the spark in '95

Liefeld and Hatch brought the fleet back from the deep

War of Eden trade in December four books strong

Realm kept the flame in '98 then sank asleep

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 laid out from six to twelve

Dreamin' bout Kobol scriptures in a cosmic haze

His boy Apollo took the chair in later years

Leadin' them toward Earth through Maximum's haze

Starbuck the space cowboy cigar still lit

Sold himself to Eurayle just to save the fleet

Athena on comms Boomer in the trench

Jolly found romance and Earth in issue twenty-three

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

War of Eden Baltar's fleet attacks

Sheba shots 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 they thought the war was through

But a voice from the past a twist of fate

Dragged Galactica back into the blue

Bridge

Yeah Marvel couldn't touch Lost Planet of the Gods

So they sculpted their own Kobol out of nothing

Realm did Season 2 Season 3 then static

Dynamite gave us old chrome and skin-job Cylons

Two timelines one pipe kickin' double vision

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

Light it up let the Tylium burn low

So say we all in slow-mo