[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]
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[Music: Ihsahn.]
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[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
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[6:39]
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Icaros, I dare you.
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For I possess the wings of faith.
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Though, heavy on my shoulders,
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no measurement can prove their weight.
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Still, a burden are they not to me.
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I am the challenger of gravity.
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The fear is not the fate I seek.
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My destiny will build upon
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the mighty turbulence beyond.
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And if I fall, I will rise... again.
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Some of envy, some of fear,
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admonish by the graves of those who fell.
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Praise the fool that pure of heart
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leaps off your finger into grace.
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Icaros, your voice once melted
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into the choir of the fallen ones.
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I have heard, I have seen
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the purity of their song.
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Icaros, Icaros.
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Icaros, your fate embrace
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a manifold of angels.
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I summon thee from shattered graves,
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and call upon the wind.
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Recieve my bow of reverence.
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Then spread your wings
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and fly into oblivion.
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An Elegy Of Icaros
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