Lyrics Icarus Missed - The Verlaines

Icarus Missed

A rare sea-bird flies once in a while
High up in the blue sky
People shoot at it like lunatics
And take aeroplanes
Icarus missed
The populace did not
Trivia… Trivia
He’s a head bird, he’s an idiot, he’s an artist
And he’s way above your head
Wisdom was a pearl before it was a swine
You can’t let yours wallow I can’t with mine…
They cut your legs off when the blood
Couldn’t face up to that task anymore…
Icarus missed
Who twisted the arrow
Trivia… Trivia
It’s a head-bird, it’s a trivia-killing trogon
And it’s way above your head
The story is untrue of how he came to fall down
The sun was never that hot:
He was shot from the ground!
He was shot from the ground!
He was shot from the ground…