Lyrics

Icarus

[Verse 1]
I fashioned you wings out of feathers and wax.
We would fly ‘cross the sea and we’d never look back.
And no eyes but the sea’s would e’er witness our act.
O, no eyes but the sea’s.

We flew past the people who once held us down,
And we laughed to ourselves how they won’t catch us now.
But your dreams took you further than fate would allow,
And fate took you from me.

[Refrain]
So maybe we flew much too close to the sun.
In the midst of our longing, our dreams were undone.
Still I’d rather be in the sky falling with you
Than standing down here on my own.

Maybe our wings were wax, feathers, and clay,
But they seemed so invincible until that day.
Now the sun, it illumines my far-away pain
As I stand on the earth all alone.

[Verse 2]
We fluttered on over their walls and their rules,
We laughed at the looks on the faces of fools,
And the king in his counting house, counting his jewels
Could ne’er rival our glee.

We danced across treetops with clouds at our toes.
While the gulls flew above and the waves crashed below.
Sweet Zephyrus carried us hither and fro
Towards the sea,’ cross the sea!

[Refrain]

[Verse 3]
You opened your wings and you took to the sky.
I tried to call out, but you flew much too high
To respond to the call of a mortal like I…

Then a raindrop of honey-hued wax prophecied
The shower of tears that now falls from my eyes.
It all happened too quickly to say our goodbyes.
In the sea, now you lie.

[Refrain]

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Verse 4]
Dear Icarus, now you have traveled so far
Not even my wings can take me where you are,
But your dreams never carried you far from my heart,
And my dreams are all of you.

[Refrain]

Threnody

[Verse 1]
I made my decision
While the rain drops like diamonds fell
From an angry crystal sky.
Full of conviction
I swore by all I knew
You’d be the last to say goodbye.

Now upon this faded ground
I stand corrected.
Of all the loss I’ve found
You’re the one I least expected.

[Refrain]
Now even as the stars fall from the sky
I can’t deny
I thought you were
I thought you were
I thought you were the one.

Sunbeams turn to shadows in your eyes.
Still I can’t cry.
I gave you all I had inside.
I gave you all I had inside.

[Verse 2]
I saw you like a vision.
Though I tried to turn my head
You drew me like a moth to fire.
So I made you my religion
And I sacrificed my heart
Upon the altar of desire.

In the artificial light
You mesmerized me.
When the illusion was revealed
It was your darkness most surprised me.

[Refrain]

[Bridge]
I can’t deny
I thought you were
I thought you were
I thought you were the one.

Sunbeams turn to shadows in your eyes.
Still I can’t cry.
I gave you all I had inside,
All my ambition, all my pride.
I loved you even when you lied,
I loved you only when you lied.

[Verse 3]
I’ve even now a longing
To turn out the bitter light
And forget this illumination.
To return to how I saw you
When I blindly gave you all my heart
And all my adoration.

Now these tattered dreams are all
That remains of your feigned affection.
Those who swear that truth is beauty
Never glimpsed your cruel reflection.

 
[Refrain]
Now even as the stars fall from the sky
I can’t deny
I thought you were
I thought you were
I thought you were the one.

Sunbeams turn to shadows in your eyes.
Still I can’t cry.
I gave you all I had inside.
I gave you all I had,
And yet I loved you only when you lied.