anonymous July 28th, 2008 08:24PM  

This song is about an ancient Greek architecture named Daedalus and his son Icarus who which they decided to fly away from the labyrinth(which Daedalus made)to escape an emperor or king (which name I have forgot)who wanted to seek revenge because of Daedalus acts, but basely is about Icarus not heeding the advice of his father of being in a stable level of flying. By Icarus not heeding that advice he crash into the water and died instantly. And then Daedalus went crazy and killed his nephew Perdix by throwing him of a very high cliff to the water.

donnaocchineri February 16th, 2009 03:55PM  

It doesn't hurt to do a little research before making a post full of innacuracies...here's the story (taken from Wikipedia)

"Icarus' father, Daedalus, a talented craftsman, attempted to escape from his exile in Crete, where he and his son were imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur (part man, part bull). Daedalus, the master craftsman, was exiled because he gave Minos' daughter, Ariadne, a clew of string in order to help Theseus, enemy of Minos, survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.[1] Hellenistic writers who provided philosophical underpinnings to the myth also preferred more realistic variants, in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a tomb for him."