[Originally released in 1999
On the album "IX Equilibrium".]
[Music: Ihsahn, Lyrics: Ihsahn]
[6:09]
[So, you
guys heard the new Emperor album, "IX Equilibrium"? Here's another song from that one, called "An Elegy of Icaros".]
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.
