Ikaros

from Earthbound EP by Lea Grant

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I've got a way to get free
From a land where nobody wants me to be
The king's got his pawns on land and sea
One of the three has got to hold me
And give me my liberty

There's so much I want to see, father
Everything shines like the sea in my feathers
You say you want me to be free
And yet you're keeping me tethered
Daddy I won't lose the sun, I know better
Daddy I won't lose the sun, I know better

My father had a fabulous design
For two pairs of wings that could really fly
Ten years in that cell of fetid birds
One my father awoke, and these were his words

"Ikaros, my son don't be a fool
Fly down at my height where the breeze blows cool
Paraffin ain't nothin' like a wing
Fly close to the sun and that wax will start dripping..."

The sun shone on my back like balm on a wound
She caressed me like a lover, she put me in tune
I made as if to enter her firey cocoon
When suddenly my wings gave a shudder
My feathers and I, down we fluttered

There's so much I want to see, father
Everything shines like the sea in my feathers
You say you want me to be free
And yet you're keeping me tethered
Daddy I won't lose the sun, I know better
Daddy I won't lose the sun, I know better

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from Earthbound EP, released February 16, 2010

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