Emperor - An Elegy Of Icaros lyrics

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[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Music: Ihsahn.]

[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]

[6:39]

Icaros, I dare you.

For I possess the wings of faith.

Though, heavy on my shoulders,

no measurement can prove their weight.

Still, a burden are they not to me.

I am the challenger of gravity.

The fear is not the fate I seek.

My destiny will build upon

the mighty turbulence beyond.

And if I fall, I will rise... again.

Some of envy, some of fear,

admonish by the graves of those who fell.

Praise the fool that pure of heart

leaps off your finger into grace.

Icaros, your voice once melted

into the choir of the fallen ones.

I have heard, I have seen

the purity of their song.

Icaros, Icaros.

Icaros, your fate embrace

a manifold of angels.

I summon thee from shattered graves,

and call upon the wind.

Recieve my bow of reverence.

Then spread your wings

and fly into oblivion.