At straws or sticks or stones Have the strength that just sit inside your sadness Even if you're sitting there alone It's just like Icarus ascending
My hand stopped her cold from its place in the air But it lingered a while in her hair To whisper remember me And I'll still walk away while behind me
Someone tell me why Would an angel Pull the feathers from her wings Pluck the feathers from her wings Did she soar too high Lost all control When altitude
As the sun breaks Above the ground An old man stands on the hill As the ground warms To the first rays of light A birdsong shatters the still His eyes
Instumental
engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax Black engulfs the dying light As he falls on frail wings of vanity and wax Icarus
its fingers are long And it knows just who?ll be torn apart by that windsong It?s the Icarus wind It?s the Icarus wind, blowing through my hair It?s the Icarus
red tears from my eyes There was nothing much I could do But watch you die Burnt your wings on the sun Metal Icarus Time after time Night after night Metal Icarus
[Iron Maiden cover] As the sun breaks, above the ground, An old man stands on the hill. As the ground warms, to the first rays of light A birdsong shatters
and now I fly closer a million miles ahead and I keep falling, all over the day slides like an orange glow in hell but I can't tell and you're near now
I can't think, can't speak Are you talking to me? I drift off with such ease I'm not listening you see Pinned down without a crown Are you talking to
Early in the morning sunlight Soaring on the wings of dawn Here I'll live and die with my wings in the sky And I won't come down no more Higher than
In the darkness I rise, long before The dawn I was dreaming of home and the life I Led I can hear the sound, of the engines Roar And I crave the
Take my wings and take my hands Put a weight round Where I stand And bind these ropes around my feet If they`re not tied I can`t concede To never chase
made and the time is now A legend is born as the eyes of the world see [CHORUS] Icarus ascending, Icarus ascending Icarus ascending into the sky Icarus ascending, Icarus ascending Icarus
We slip and fall, I've got to show how far I have gone Those little things that wash away Those little things that leave a stain Hike it up, it's already
Into arms below the ocean Icarus, tempting fate again Altitude sickness setting in We're burning up as we descend Icarus, tempting fate again Into arms below the ocean We're burning up Icarus
Get back in your hole, get dead, son Get back in your hole, get bent Get back in your hole, get dead, son Get back in your hole, get bent Crawl under