#icarus bastille

[divine-draws]

WIP animatic :3c character: Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls) song: icarus - Bastille

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[dryya-doesnt]

Doodling them bc they hit me like a truck during my finals (overtook my mind)

[tsunosagun]

i flew too high, please catch my fall

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

icarus is a jason song i'm screaming tearing at things with my teeth sobbing wailing even

[pickastitch]

the icarus who chose her own sun

the icarus who wrapped themself in the void

the icarus who killed the false sun

the icarus who the stars gave up their life for

the icarus who crash landed onto the earth's surface

the icarus who finally saw her sun; only to see a moon

[artofhaileyd]

Look who's digging their own grave

That is what they all say; you'll drink yourself to death

Look who makes their own bed, lies right down within it

And what will you have left?

[galaxy-flowergirl]

Icarus

Saltburn - Emerald Fennel // Oscar Wilde // The Fall Of Icarus - Jacob Peter Gowy // Icarus - Bastille // “Daedalus and Icarus” - Ovid // The Lament for Icarus - Herbert James Draper // Burn - Hamilton // I, Carrion (Icarian) - Hozier // Sunlight - Hozier

[andromedaexists]

When Hozier said "If the wind turns, if I hit a squall \ Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me \ If I should fall on that day \ I only pray, don't fall away from me" and when STARSET said "Fell out of the air and you broke your wings \ Like you're doing every other time \ Made a new pair \ Out of broken things to give it all another try \ And you climb right up to the highest peaks \ And reach out to the edge of the world you seek \ Afraid of heights so you don't believe \ You could ever be good enough" and when Kyle Stibbs said "I'll be lesser than dirt to you \ Isn't it thе opposite of Icarus where wе find our meaning?" and when Bastille said "Look who's digging their own grave \ That is what they all say; you'll drink yourself to death \ Look who makes their own bed, lies right down within it \ And what will you have left?" and when Ripto said "So, Apollo, bring me back \ To the place I was before I met you \ And Icarus, lead the way \ To where I need to go" i felt that

[tenderlystupendoussoul]

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1560);

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (poem), William Carlos Williams (1960);

"Musée des Beaux Arts" (poem), W. H. Auden (1938);

“ICARUS”, STARSET;

“Icarus”, Bastille;

“Fun”, Coldplay;

“Sunlight”, Hozier;

“I, Carrion (Icarian)”, Hozier;

Icarus's passing is seen by Bruegel, Williams, and Auden as a minor incident in the grand scheme of existence. Williams' "quite unnoticed" serves as a reminder/memento mori of our own mortality. Dying is not such a remarkable occurrence, life moves on without us when we pass away. And sometimes all that can be heard at the end of a life is a just a brief splash sound.

"Icarus" by STARSET is about a self-destructive character. They interpret the story of Icarus as an allegory for being too self-absorbed at the expense of others. The lines "you'll never be good enough" and "you always fly right up until it burns" as well as "you'll never go through them" all allude to a tendency to constantly pursue the same route over and over no matter what.

Bastille's "Icarus" retells Icarus's story alongside a modern tragedy. The opening scene of "Icarus" shows a person preparing to "dig their own grave" and "drink themselves to death." The song continues by drawing a comparison between death and Icarus, who is "flying too close to the sun/ And Icarus's life, it has only just begun". With these lines, Bastille adapt the Icarus myth to a more contemporary setting, creating associations with tragedy and the carelessness of wasted youth.

In the song "Fun" by Coldplay, the singer likens himself to Icarus and confesses, "I know it's over before she says/ Now someone else has taken your place/ I know it's over, Icarus says to the sun". The Icarus myth is reframed by Coldplay as a tragic love story between a young person and the sun.

Hozier's song "Sunlight" describes how he is ready to die (metaphorically) in order to be with the person he views as his sunlight. While Hozier's main concern in "I, Carrion" is his lover's support, even in the face of death. The narrator's deep yearning for their lover's companionship leads them to embrace death willingly. Just as Icarus dismissed Daedalus' warning about flying too high, Hozier shows a similar disregard, blinded by love, prioritizing his over to the point of placing them over his own life.

[h0rsegirlpercy]

[portrait0fthem00n]

Icarus by Bastille, Icarus & Apollo by Ripto, Icarus by The Crane Wives and I,Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier I love you all

[mx-anthony-janthony-crowley]

what are everyone's bets for the crowley playlist?

[wiwiurikawa]

ok but am i the only one who icarus by bastille reminds of james norrington in 2/3 potc movie?

[miryel89]

Probably the saddest thing you'll see today 💛

Icarus - Bastille

Credit to @atlantis_ace on TIKTOK

[stillavoidingbaddays]

A random thought at 1am but nothing-NOTHING makes me more emotional and tender than the last 35 seconds of plug in. The strings, the tenderness in Dan’s voice, the last little riff Dan pulls off with the final ‘liiieeeees’ it’s just fucking perfection.