Icarus

Ever since I was a child

I’ve always wished for wings

Hopping

From chair to sofa

The floor is my prison.

Ever since I was a child

I’ve always wished for wings.

But, oh no, can’t hold me up

With paper, wax and strings.

Icarus, oh Icarus am I.

I jumped off the cliff of fame

And flew a bit too high.

I wish, I wish,

I wish that I could fly

Like a bird in the night sky.

I, oh I, oh Icarus am I.

I tried to find the light

That sun I wish to shine.

Ambition leaves me blind.

These wings couldn’t hold me up,

I’m solid like a stone.

My feet, just tied to the ground

And wax just melts along.

I wish, I wish,

I wish that I could fly.

But these wings, oh-oh,

They can’t support me

Flights of fancy.

My bones cannot be hollow

the ways that you’re are, oh.

My stomach should be empty,

I’m overcompensating.

The numbers, they keep going down

But I still can’t—

I wish, I wish,

I wish that I could fly.

My stomach’s gone

My wings are stronger

Gravity still holds me down.

I wish, I wish

I wish that I could fly.

I jumped off the cliffs of fame

But the spotlight didn’t catch me,

Light is cruel, these rays they burn,

Now Icarus is falling.

I, oh I, oh Icarus am I.

I flew towards the sun

Riding on a lie.

I, oh I, oh Icarus am I.

And I, oh I, I flew a bit too high.

I, oh I, oh Icarus am...

I tried to walk across the clouds,

To dance across the sky.

But no, there never was a hope

For I am not divine.

I, oh I, oh Icarus was I.

I gave up on my dreams,

No man can never fly.

Ambition left me blind.

Empty, and Hollow,

No, nothing left inside.

No myth to fill this void,

This space inside my heart.

I, oh I, oh Icarus was I.

Now I, oh I, am nothing inside.