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This song was written for an album that would have come after Ark, which didn’t happen. Live at Eter. Klub - Poland, Wrocław, 12th September, 2011.
Icarus
Sunlight casts a golden spell,
melts the winter snow.
New life is born upon the wing,
the migrants have returned.
And you wonder what lies beyond,
beyond the edge of town.
If you could just spread those giant wings,
you’d fly beyond those clouds,
beyond those clouds.
Man is like a flightless bird,
playing overtures for songs,
and as the moon’s wax and wane,
still reaching for the stars.
But if you fly too high,
you may crash and burn,
and your great, ungainly wings come crashing down to earth,
down to earth,
down to earth.
Time to bury the gathering along the talking wires,
while you still sit there on your fence along the garden mire.
And you wonder what lies beyond,
beyond the edge of town,
and if you could just spread those giant wings,
you’d fly beyond those clouds.
But if you fly too high,
you’ll crash and burn,
and your great, ungainly wings
come crashing down to earth.