Krista Detor - Icarus lyrics

ICARUS © Krista Detor, Cover Their Eyes Spent the night under the dogstar chasing my tail All out of things to say - No one to tell anyway And the ambulance sped down the road in search of a heart Whose beating had stopped - A life interrupted PRE-CHORUS: Statements were taken and solemnly filed in a drawer I wish I had known, she said, that he'd go off alone, she said CHORUS: And Icarus fell while no one was looking We had places to go, and what could we do He fell out of the sky, disappeared in the blue unending Maybe it's better there on the other side I hope that it is, for my sake and for his It's got to be greener, she said, when they'd left with their lights All gone on their way - Nobody to save today PRE-CHORUS: He should have known better than flying so close to the sun The wings couldn't hold, but he never did what he was told And Icarus fell while no one was looking We had places to go, and what could we do He fell out of the sky and disappeared in the blue forever BR: I could have saved him, I could have, just one minute more Had I thought of it then, but you know how it's been, All this thinking I do lately takes all of my attention. A minute has pa**ed since the words dropped right off of the page Nobody to catch them - May I live to at least forget him… While Icarus fell and no one was looking We had places to go, and what could we do He fell out of the sky and disappeared in the blue unending Blue unending … sea