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Icarus

760

Hip-Hop/Rap

Icarus was released on April 24, 2011 by Sunday Best Recordings as a part of the album Balance

Song Details

Release DateApril 24, 2011

LabelSunday Best Recordings

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM90

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Sound of Rum

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Kae Tempest

Songwriter

Marsh

Composer

Lawrenson

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Dan Carey

Producer

Lyrics

Soaring the skies that had always been beyond his reach

He felt like a champion, feet kicked the clouds

Arms bound in the feathers of his father's labour

Which a little while later would be ashes, vapour

Cumbersome limbs furnished with powerful things

He heard the winds speak every time he heard his wings beat

His father flew before him and so the course was set

He said don't fly by the waves 'cause your wings will get wet

But don't fly so high that the sun melts the wax

He said stay on my path son, follow my tracks

But Icarus enamoured by the feeling of flight

He just had to fly higher, get closer to the light

The sun was hot against him but he carried on ascending

Strengthening, increasing like the heat it was so tempting

Beneath him was the world he left behind in search of better things

But to achieve that freedom he sacrificed everything

Icarus come down from the sky you're flying too high

Icarus, heed your father's words this ain't your territory

No one even noticed as he splashed, hit the seabed

Wonder what he saw before he fell now if he needed some help

Would he have asked for it? Probably he wouldn't

Probably he thought he was invincible, he weren't though

In principle he burned

Smouldered in those myths

So that we who never flew before could learn from what he did

Given the gift of flight it was too easy to ignore

The warnings of his father, how could he be truly responsible?

Really all he wants to do is soar above his station

And become the sun's equal, but the sun can have no equal

Poor Icarus that flicker in his eye

Distant picture in the sky about to catch the light he saw

Foolish young pride, silly man cub

How can you learn to fly if you ain't even learned to stand up?

If he'd listened to his father, he never would have drowned

But the happiness he felt is one he never would have found

Gifts are dangerous when they are given, not earned

And a lesson merely heard is never a lesson learned

By the time his father turned the wax had completely burned

Feathers scattered on the waves, they rolled on unconcerned

For that small moment before he fell into the sea

Icarus the headstrong had been completely free

Icarus come down from the sky you're flying too high

Icarus, heed your father's words this ain't your territory

No one even noticed as he splashed, hit the seabed

Wonder what he saw before he fell now if he needed some help

Would he have asked for it? Probably he wouldn't

Probably he thought he was invincible, he weren't

In principle he burned

Smouldered in those myths

So that we who never flew before could learn from what he did

So that we who never flew before could learn from what he did

Icarus come down from the sky you're flying too high

Icarus, heed your father's words this ain't your territory

No one even noticed as he splashed, hit the seabed

Wonder what he saw before he fell now if he needed some help

Would he have asked for it? Probably he wouldn't

Probably he thought he was invincible, he weren't

In principle he burned

He smouldered in those myths

So that we who never flew before could learn from what he did

Written by: Kae Tempest, Lawrenson, Marsh

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