This is an easy song to play, just listen to it to get the rhythm or play it however you
want around these chords! Pretty sure they're all correct :)
I think the chorus sounds better with a D/F# rather than just a D but either makes sense
and D is a litter easier to play.
Intro:
EmCD
Ohhh oh oh oh ohhh ohhh
EmCD
ohhh oh oh oh ohhh ohhh
Verse 1:
C
Look who's digging their own grave, that is what they all say
EmD
You'll drink yourself to death
C
Look who makes their own bed, lies right down within it
EmD
What will you have left?
C
Out on the front door step, drinking from a paper cup
EmD
You won't remember this
C
Living beyond your years, acting out all their fears
EmD
You feel it in your chest
CEmGD
Your hands protect the flames, from the wild winds around you
Chorus:
EmCGD
Icarus is flying to close to the sun
EmCGD
Icarus' life, it has only just begun
It's just begun
EmCD
ooh oh oh oh ohh ohh
Verse 2:
C
Standing on the cliff face, highest fall you'll ever grace
EmD
It scares me half to death
C
Look out to the future, but it tells you nothing
EmD
So take another breath
CEmGD
Your hands protect the flames from the wild winds around you
Chorus:
EmCGD
Icarus is flying to close to the sun
EmCGD
Icarus' life, it has only just begun
EmCGD
This is how it feels to take a fall
EmCGD
Icarus is flying towards an early grave
Bridge:
CD
Put up your defences when you leave
EmG
You leave because you're certain
CD
Of who you want to be
CD
You're putting up your armour when you leave
EmG
And you leave because you're certain
CD
Of who you want to be, ohhh
Chorus:
EmCGD
Icarus is flying to close to the sun
EmCGD
Icarus' life, it has only just begun
EmCGD
This is how it feels to take a fall
EmCGD
Icarus is flying towards an early grave
EmCD
oohh oh oh ohh ohhh x2