Icarus Missed - The Verlaines

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…