Wings Like Icarus

by St. Jude the Obscure

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Wings Like Icarus

I hold your hand
In a hospital sheet
As countless feathers
Spill into the street
Did you see that boy
Did you see him run?
His wings like Icarus
Into the Sun
All full of joy
We wasted the days
Emptiness filled up the ashtrays
Aren't we all just trying to be
Something before we are nothing?
Then out, onto
Over fields we'd run
Just careless youth
In rose gardens
I first saw truth
In beauty's lie
As clouded disillusion
Filled the eyes
Of the ones I knew
Burning brighter
With a skin too few
You carved your name into
Hatha's black tattoo
What you are is seeking you
You've buried it down since birth
Since you were the glowing light
In a shadowy womb
Since your life first had worth
I'm seeking you
In the valleys of where it hurts
In the valleys of where it hurts
Fall out, fall behind
There's a few that stay in your bones
Beneath the skin of a roaming home

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released February 9, 2018
Adele Emmas, Christian Sandford

Extra Vocals: Sian Williams
Mastered by: Thom Roberts

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