[C standard, down-tuned] [Intro, sludge riff, slow and massive, no vocals, a low dissonant drone establishing wrongness in the air before any words] [Verse 1, vocal enters melismatic and technically controlled, moving quickly against the crushingly slow riff beneath it] Wax is thinning, wings unraveling Gravity's winning, downward traveling Sky above, a slow reaction None of this feels like attraction This was his labor, his whole endeavor None of it matters, not now, not ever [Chorus, same controlled, clean, high delivery, precise rather than warm, the lie sung beautifully rather than just stated] Sleep, Icarus, it won't hurt so bad Sleep, Icarus, just close your eyes, lad Sleep, Icarus, you're only falling Sleep, Icarus, no one is calling [Verse 2, delivery still precise and controlled, riff thickens slightly beneath it] Ground closes distance, this is existence Wind gives no resistance, just persistence Sky above stays distant, indifferent Neither one's patient, neither different I was a name, I was a story Now I'm just this, falling, sorry [Chorus, identical text and delivery, though the ground is measurably closer now than it was the first time] Sleep, Icarus, it won't hurt so bad Sleep, Icarus, just close your eyes, lad Sleep, Icarus, you're only falling Sleep, Icarus, no one is calling [Verse 3, control still holding even as the content peaks, riff at its heaviest and slowest here] Sea below in constant motion Sky above, an empty notion Everything I built was brittle Every answer, just a riddle Every year I felt so hollow Now there's nothing left to follow [Final chorus, fragment only, the first real crack in that technical control] Sleep, Icarus, it doesn't hurt at [Scream, the one total loss of control in the entire song, raw and full-throated, cut off mid-word, no reverb] AAAAAAAAAAAAAH [Impact, single massive percussive hit] [Ring, decays naturally to silence, nothing added underneath it]
