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01 Icarus

from Concentra by Project Tu

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This was the first time that Joe and I really wrote a song directly together. It started as just a cool drum beat Joe came up with that we started adding to and adding lyrics to. It's also the first time I recorded my guitar right from my amp rather than direct inputting and I really love the result.

-Ben

This song attempts to mix a narrative about two doomed lovers, violent imagery, and hip hop into a veritable feast for the ears.

-Joe

lyrics

Push a little more and the fire will give you birth
Icarus hold on
As you crash into the earth

Focused on you in a concentration camp
Beaten black and blue I still asked for this chance
I ask you to dance Between the barbed wire fences
We stole furtive glances and made up future tenses

I used to be soft like a Kashmir sweater
Now lost in the Kashmir weather
I’m Blackened smooth skin as I hide, call me leather
But my thoughts smile like my bride, for the better

Married in the dark with rings of barbed wire
Love took us higher, towards a pyre

Our blood spilled like our hearts were too full
And we radiated love like an atom bomb could
I was drawn to you like red to a bull
If I could do it all again then I would

Push a little more and the fire will give you birth
Icarus hold on
As you crash into the earth

Pristine landscape awes, then it explodes
Snow covers up bullet holes filling foes on silk roads
Leap of faith over walls and smashed gates
Creeping safe in the dark and cold place

Not a minefield if it's our field
Peel off dust like stitches that seal
Our fate as third rate victims
Watch my weight like obesity symptoms
Take these dogs and sic them

On whoever I come across
God will have to chain me to the cross
I didn't mean to be a bother
But our Father was abusive father

(Not a godfather but I sobbed father)
(Spoil the child spare the rod father)
(Go fast go further go harder)
And if I’m fodder for naught then why bother)
And I carry the cross then why falter
And I’ve nothing to hold on I’ll stall for
Fields of poppy grow slow but pass fast
Two hearts crunch glass shattered like their short past

I feel your palm in the napalm
hold my hand as the missiles fly by
This meteor shower will never be gone
Unless this lifetimes the night that we die

Our blood spilled like our hearts were too full
And we radiated love like an atom bomb could
I was drawn to you like red to a bull
If I could do it all again then I would

credits

from Concentra, track released August 31, 2011
Ben- guitar, lyrics
Joe- keyboard, drum programming, lyrics, vocals
Lanna- vocals

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