Icarus Lyrics by Ani Difranco

Icarus

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