The Verlaines Icarus Missed lyrics

Icarus missed
The populace did not...

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...