Icarus Rex

They culled the eagles to save the rabbits and the rats
Tell me who shall share the sky with the sun now?
King Icarus, keep your head down for now
This is the realm of the Father

As the rocks slide like thunder
In the throats of the mountain
Icarus King, come closer now
The dead wear wings of moss

Now would that flame like a kept hawk
Shake the brine and the blood from your wings
See the falcons perish on the wrists of Caesar
Icarus, come closer

Now death sticks to you like frost
Your body craving into flight
Now how to sear across the sky?
How to twist in the Sun
With your wings frozen to the ground?
As mere dead leaves

Let us rise to gather like grey breath
From every frozen plow
Icarus Rex, as hunters reeking of death
Coming ever closer now
Closer to the Sun
To call the eagles back into the sky
Call the eagles back into the sky