Icarus Lyrics by Ani DiFranco

Icarus Lyrics

    seems like you just
    started noticing
    how noticably bad things really are
    and when you walked past this couple arguing
    in a rolled up window
    of a parked car
    and all of that
    gesticulated bitterness
    and all of that
    muffled yelling hell
    its dark just starts wafting at you
    like a big fury rat died
    inside of that wall kinda smell

    breathe like it's rolling like a cold front
    thunder is thundering and lightening in tow
    and your tiny little life gets
    even smaller
    as you heed the heaven's mighty show

    and I don't mean heaven
    like god-like
    the animal in me knows very well
    nature is our teacher, our leader, and our lover
    and god is just another story that we tell

    and you're trying not to grasp-not to start grasping
    at straws -or sticks- or stones
    just learn how to sit inside your sadness
    even if you're sitting there alone

    it's just like Icarus ascending
    never intending to look back
    nature's law and your tragic flaw
    I find descending
    flying into the arms of a Venus flytrap

    guzzle till the buzzer stops
    guzzle till the buzzer stops
    guzzle till the buzzer stops
    guzzle till the buzzer stops
    guzzle till the buzzer stops

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