Icarus imagery in contemporary music
The theme of the myth of Icarus and Daedalus from Greek mythology frequently appears in contemporary popular music, which can be interpreted philosophically. The following is a list of songs that refer to Icarus, alphabetized by artist.
| Artist | Title | Date | Album/Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annelie van Rooyen | "Treffers op Versoek" | 2008 | http://www.annelivanrooyen.co.za/pers4.htm" |
| Vic Mensa | "Codeine Crazy (Icarus Story)" | 2015 | |
| Switchfoot | "Light and Heavy" | 2016 | Light and Heavy EP (album) - "I'm feeling Icarus / I might have flown too high" |
| Coldplay | "Fun" | 2015 | A Head Full of Dreams (album) - "'I know it's over,' Icarus says to the sun" |
| Alesana | "Icarus" | 2006 | On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax (album) |
| Angra | "Metal Icarus" | Fireworks (album) | |
| Aria | "Икар" ("Icarus") | 1986 | S kem ty? (album) |
| Pete Atkin | "Femme Fatale" | 2002 | The Lakeside Sessions "...though Icarus flew near the sun and fell" |
| The Back Horn | "イーカロスの空v ("Icarus' Sky") | 2006 | |
| Bangtan Sonyeondan | "Blood Sweat and Tears" | 2016 | Wings (album) - "many references to Icarus in the Music video" |
| Bastille | "Icarus" | 2011 | "Icarus is flying too close to the sun" |
| Michael McCann | "Icarus" | Main Theme - Deus Ex: Human Revolution Soundtrack | |
| Black Tape for a Blue Girl | "For You Will Burn Your Wings upon the Sun" | 1996 | Remnants of a Deeper Purity |
| Blasted Mechanism | "Vôo de Ícaro (Feat. Marcelo D2)" | 2009 | Mind At Large |
| Bombay Bicycle Club | "The Hill" | "We flew too high let the sun burn our wings" | |
| Bon Iver | "Flume" | 2008 | "Gluey feathers on a flume" |
| Jen Cass | "Daedalus" | 1996 | Brave Enough to Say (album) |
| Caedmon's Call | "Not Enough" | 1994 | My Calm, Your Storm (album) "I mount up with waxen wings, high to reach the sun" |
| Celldweller | "The Wings of Icarus" | ||
| Clutch | "Droid" & "Mercury" | 1995 and 2004 | "Flight of Icarus, down into flames." & "Daedalus, your child is falling and the Labyrinth is calling." respectively |
| Miranda Cosgrove | "Hey You" | 2010 | "If you fly like Icarus to the edge" |
| Counting Crows | "Insignificant" and "Sundays" | 2008 | "I am Icarus falling out of the sun" |
| Brian Current | Airline Icarus | 2004 | contemporary opera based on the Icarus myth |
| Diablo | 2008 | Icaros (album) | |
| Ani DiFranco | "Icarus" | Evolve (album) | |
| Dreamtale | "Wings of Icaros" | Difference (album) | |
| Danny Elfman | "The Little Things" | 2008 | "With a mountain of maybes And some Icarus wings" |
| Doomtree | "The Bends" | 2015 | "So fly took a bullet in the wax wing / So high but didn't get the chance to melt / So tight how when he came down didn’t even look scared " |
| Emperor | "An Elegy of Icaros" | 1999 | IX Equilibrium (album) |
| Enter the Haggis | "Icarus" | 2001 | Aerials (album) "You think I am weak 'til your strength starts to go / and you reach for my hand as I take to the sky / my father, I've waited and awful long time for this - / rot in your labyrinth, I have learned to fly." |
| Epik High | "Icarus Walks" | Pieces, Part One (album) | |
| Eddi Reader | "East of Us" | "...just like Icarus who kissed the sunlight..." | |
| Faith No More | "Just a Man" | 1995 | "...like Icarus, to fly too high..." |
| William Fitzsimmons | "The Problem of Pain" | 2005 | "Icarus they caught you where you tumbled on" |
| Flutlicht | "Icarus (Original Daedalus Mix)" | 2001 | Icarus (The Flight) EP released on Drizzly Songs (catalog no. DRIZ2010/62) |
| Dan Fogelberg | "Icarus Ascending" | 2003 | Full Circle |
| The Forms | 2003 | Icarus (album) | |
| Jon Foreman | "Light & Heavy" | I'm feeling Icarus | |
| Bing Futch | "Icarus" | ||
| Garfunkel and Oates[1] | "Loser" | 2014 | "Icarus is bullshit, that's why it's called 'mythology'" |
| Thea Gilmore | "Icarus Wind" | "Soon there’ll just be feathers and the quiet of the fall" | |
| Goanna | "Common Ground" | 1984 | "Icarus beware the sun, your youthful feathers come undone, we watch them fall we count them one by one" |
| Nina Gordon | "Tonight & The Rest Of My Life" | 2000 | "Down to Earth I fell with dripping wings Heavy things won't fly And the sky might catch fire And burn the axis of the world that's why I prefer a sunless sky To the glittering and stinging in my eyes" |
| Steve Hackett | "Icarus Ascending" | 1978 | Please Don't Touch, with vocals by Richie Havens |
| Hawklords | "The Only Ones" | 1977 | 25 Years On (album) |
| Hibria | "Wings of Wax" | 2008 | The Skull Collectors (album) |
| Hopesfall | "Icarus" | 2004 | A Types |
| The Hours | "Icarus" | "Like Icarus he flew too close to the sun" | |
| Immortal Technique | "That's What It Is" | 2008 | "Your wax is useless, Rappers are dropping like Icarus" |
| Indigo Girls | "Go" | "Did they tell you you would come undone / When you tried to touch the sun?" | |
| Iron Maiden | "Flight of Icarus" | 1983 | Piece of Mind (album) |
| Iron Maiden | "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier" | 2010 | "Too close to the sun, and surely will burn, like Icarus before me or so legend goes" |
| It Dies Today | "A Romance by the Wings of Icarus" | 2002 | Forever Scorned (album) |
| Jars of Clay | "Worlds Apart" | 1996 | "I flew too high and like Icarus I collide" |
| Jordin Kare | "Fire in the Sky" | "Gagarin was the first, back in nineteen sixty-one, when like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the sun." | |
| Kansas | "Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)" | 1975 | Masque (album) |
| Kansas | "I Can Fly" | 1995 | "...this foolish pride where Icarus died" |
| Kansas | "Icarus II" | 2000 | Somewhere to Elsewhere (album) |
| Kansas | "Carry on Wayward Son" | 1977 | "Once I rose above the noise and confusion. Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion. I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high" |
| Kanye West | "Wolves (feat. Vic Mensa & Sia)" | 2015 | "Yeah I feel you burning, everything's burning / Don't fly too high / Your wings might melt, you're much too good to be true" |
| Keldian | "The Ghost of Icarus" | 2008 | Journey of Souls (album) |
| Paul Kelly | "Dumb Things" | 1987 | "I melted wax to fix my wings" |
| Killer Be Killed | "Wings of Feather and Wax" | 2014 | "Now I'm falling, like Icarus to land..." |
| Eugene Kurtz | "Icare" | Solo flute work written by the composer for Craig Goodman, published by Les Editions Jobert, Paris. | |
| Demi Lovato | "Heart Attack" | 2013 | "I'm flying too close to the sun and I burst into flames." |
| Lullaby for the Working Class | "Jester's Siren" | 1997 | "Take this biplane made of wax - just don't fly too close to the sun" |
| Machinae Supremacy | "Sid Icarus" | 2008 | Overworld (album) |
| Madeon | "Icarus" | 2012 | Single Release |
| Yngwie Malmsteen | "Icarus Dream Fanfare" | 1998 | Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra (album) |
| Marillion | "The Great Escape" | 1994 | Brave (album) |
| Mastodon | "Oblivion" | 2009 | Crack the Skye (album) " I flew beyond the sun before it was time, burning all the gold that keep inside my shell " |
| mclusky | "Icarus Smicarus" | 2004 | The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire |
| Joni Mitchell | "Amelia" | 1976 | Hejira, describing the flight of Amelia Earhart "like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms" |
| Mutton Birds | "The Heater" | "Come close and listen while I sing / I won't melt your precious wings" | |
| Nine Inch Nails | "Somewhat Damaged" | 1999 | "So impressed with all you do. Tried so hard to be like you. Flew too high and burned the wing. Lost my faith in everything." |
| OHM | "Icarus Falls" | 2005 | Amino Acid Flashback |
| Onitsuka Chihiro | "蝋の翼 (Wax Wings)" | 2007 | LAS VEGAS (album) |
| Alan Parsons | "Too Close To The Sun" | 1996 | from the On Air album; relates the escape of Daedalus and Icarus from the labyrinth of the minotaur. |
| Periphery | "Icarus Lives!" | 2010 | Periphery (album) |
| Perpetual Groove | "Too Close To The Sun" | 2009 | Heal (album) |
| Phish | "The Squirming Coil" | "I'd like to lick the coil some day. Like Icarus, who had to pay. With melting wax and feathers brown, he tasted it on his way down." | |
| Pierrot | "Ikarossu" | Finale (album) | |
| Pink Floyd | "Learning To Fly" | 1987 | "Ice is forming on the tips of my wings/Unheeded warnings I thought I thought of everything" |
| The Puhdys | "Ikarus" | 1973 | Single, released along with Sommernacht |
| Punch Brothers | "Icarus Smicarus" | 2012 | "Get out of those shoes and grow wings" |
| Queen | "No One But You" | "They're only flying too close to the sun" | |
| Race the Sun | "To Icarus with all sincerity" | 2004 | The Rest of Our Lives is Tonight (album) |
| Rammstein | "Dalai Lama" | 2004 | Reise, Reise (album) |
| Regina Spektor | "Lacrimosa" | 2002 | "Hi, I'm Icarus, I'm falling down from the dust of earth returning..." Songs (album) |
| Reinhard Mey | "Ikarus" | "...um wie Ikarus aus Gefangenschaft zu fliehen" | |
| Rush | "Bravado" | "If we burn our wings flying too close to the sun" | |
| Santigold | "Icarus" | 2008 | Top Ranking (mix tape) |
| Savatage | "Alone You Breathe" | The band's guitarist Criss Oliva, who died in a car accident, is compared to Icarus | |
| Tupac Shakur | "Hit 'Em Up" | 1996 | "Niggas think they learned to fly. But they burn, motherfucker, you deserve to die" |
| Sirah | "Icarus" | 2013 | Inhale (EP) |
| Smashing Pumpkins | "A Song For a Son" | 2009 | "...Who flew into the sun, Never to return" |
| The Staves | "Icarus" | 2011 | "Like icarus before me, these wings are not my own", Mexico EP |
| Sunset Rubdown | "Idiot Heart" | "The way that Icarus thought he might own the sky" | |
| Synthetic Epiphany | "Icarus (feat. CoMa)" | 2015 | "like Icarus, we flew into the sun" |
| Billy Talent | "Cut the Curtains" | "Now here seems our wax wings have melted away; And we've only been here for one day; My faith fades away" | |
| Textures | "Laments of an Icarus" | 2008 | Silhouettes (album) |
| Third Eye Blind | "Blinded" | "Icarus is not a tee shirt or a swan song" | |
| Thrice | "Daedalus" | Alchemy Index, Vol. III AIR (album) | |
| "The Melting Point Of Wax" | 2003 | The Artist In The Ambulance (album) | |
| Toy Matinee | "Last Plane Out" | "I like the part where Icarus hijacks the little red hen." | |
| To/Die/For | "Fragmented | "I ran too close to sun, I flied too high" | |
| 2002 | "Icarus" | 1992 | Wings (album) |
| U2 | "Even Better Than the Real Thing" | "We're free to fly the crimson sky; the sun won't melt our wings tonight." | |
| Unheilig | "Ikarus" | 2001 | Phosphor (album) |
| Andreas Vollenweider | "The Secret Shrine of Icarus" | 1993 | Eolian Minstrel (album) |
| Andreas Vollenweider | "Oxygenia & Icarus" | 2009 | AIR (album) |
| Jason Webley | "Icarus" | Only Just Beginning (album) | |
| White Hinterland | "Icarus" | 2010 | Kairos (album) |
| Wolfgang | "Weightless" | 1996 | "Let Icarus plummet as sun melts his wax" |
| Xandria | "Fire of Universe" | "I'm an angel / Born from the breath of life / An Ikarus / Burning and falling down." | |
| Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force | "Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4" | 1984 | |
| Zao | "The Icarus Complex" | 2008 | This is Solid State Vol. 3 (album) |
| Andalusia | "Icarus" | 2001 | Such a Heavenly Eyesore (album) |
| San Fermin | "Daedalus" | 2013 | San Fermin (album) |
| Haken | "Falling Back to Earth" | 2013 | "Now that my feathers are broken/Crestfallen my head is bowed/Splashing down into the ocean/Something seems different now." |
| Sieben | "A Firebug Nature" | 2014 | Each Divine Spark (album) - "We fashion our wings/as fire-fascination./We fashion our wings/ over the sea,/smack-front of the black, facing void." |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | "Burn" | 2015 | Hamilton (album) - "Do you know what Angelica said when she read what you'd done? She said, 'You have married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun.'" |
References
Paul Kalkbrenner
Berlin Calling Icarus
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