wings of wax.

Daedalus warned us of this before, an untimely demise to be

That those with a hopeful dream to soar'd

Best beware their hubris and complacency

He said, "Wings of wax can only fly so high and swoop so low

Be careful, son of the damping tides and the melting gaze of Apollo"

But his words of warning aren't worth much when falling on deaf ears

The child, oh, his feathers fell to dust, and the father he fell to tears

So toe the line and stay aligned

Don't fall behind, but don't run ahead, you'll end up dead

The road we walk is lined in chalk

And soon the clock will tick it's final tock and death will knock

But there's an Icarus in all of us, a child struck by glee

We all lost trust in Daedalus once we caught the thought of escaping

'Cause we all get stuck down on our luck

Yeah, we're all just trapped on Crete

Oh, there's an Icarus in all of us, dreaming to escape our suffering

But perhaps this diegesis was just another farce

Is it truly man's great weakness to wanna fly up high into the stars?

It seems awfully convenient that those in linen robes

Wanna keep the world's obedience in a stable state of limbo

So fuck it, fly as high and swoop as low as you would please

Since when the fuck was what we know

Transcribed by pricks like Socrates?

You trapped us on an island, and then you left us for dead

We watched the stars with broken hearts

And now we sure as shit won't stand around

These shackles cannot hold us down again

There's an Icarus in all of us, sick of being the mean

So, please tell us the difference between contentedness and complacency

Yeah, I call your bluff, we've had enough

And there's no more words to placate me

'Cause there's an Icarus in all of us

Dreaming to take flight with proud wax wings