Icarus is the young apprentice of his father, the famous inventor Daedalus, in his sculpture workshop in Knossos. His life is turned upside down by the discovery of a mysterious boy with a bull's head ...

The lyrics invert the myth of Icarus, who escapes from the island of Crete with his father Daedalus but succumbs to his hubris when he flies too close to the sun and melts his wax wings ...