The Daedalus and Icarus Journey by Apostolos Paraskevas Classical Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

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This guitar and vocal work were originally set on the Robert Frost poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, and was written for a lecture series at Boston University given by Lukas Foss entitled ‘Words on Music". Some years later I set out to publish the work and found that the estate of the late R. Frost frowned upon this particular practice and after a second failed attempt to get permission to publish the work, I decided to write my own verse for this composition (my first actually) and use a subject familiar to me, the story of Daedalus and Icarus Journey to freedom.

After his arrival in Crete, Daedalus found that Minos would not let him leave. He subsequently obtained wax and feathers and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus. With these they succeeded in flying away, but Icarus, flying too near to the sun, melted his wings, fell into the sea near Crete, and drowned; Daedalus escaped to Italy only to fall into the hands of the local King Kokalos who drowned him in hot water.

 The Daedalus and Icarus Journey

Escape from here is what I’ll do

I have a plan I thought it through

The waves beneath us deadly wild

I’ll fly up high, it’s just the sky

That was a dreadful thing to say

To fly so high, you can’t survive.

Your wings, your soul and frozen smile,

The sun will burn and you will die.

The Death you seek I am sure you’ll get,

He’s there for you he won’t forget.

He will be fast and kind with you,

If He survived why not you too?

It’s time to go the sky gets blue

My mind will be so close to you

You cannot scare me I have to try,

The time is right, let’s say goodbye.

Text by Apostolos Paraskevas