i think this song is about hope...and its kind of funny because it is just like thrice's melting point of wax because they're both about icarus...its all about having ambitions and not settling for what people tell you what you can and cant do...thats why the opening lines are "ill put you back in your place..." someone in power or above you is telling you exactly where you belong, "we'll ride a thousand miles to find out we are empty..." which in the case of icarus if he were to ride a thousand miles(into the sky because his goal was to touch the sun) he would see all the stars and the unending beauty of space, and he would realize his life is nothing like that beauty, "...and if i wrote out our sins it would read a thousand lies" meaning if he wrote down what everybody told him he was doing wrong it would be lies, there isn't anything wrong with dreaming...the first verse is just saying that if you could accomplish your dreams where would you be and what would you do...like having the unattainable girl "...if you could have her..." now the second verse "losing atmosphere eyes full of stars" is just saying that you can always be full of hope, and dreams....i love this song it explains the artwork to the album...its all very center the story of icarus...the front of the cover is a burning pair of wings...and icarus incompasses the theme of the a types...which are personality types that are restless, impatiented, and aggressive...something that i think icarus was
i think this song is about hope...and its kind of funny because it is just like thrice's melting point of wax because they're both about icarus...its all about having ambitions and not settling for what people tell you what you can and cant do...thats why the opening lines are "ill put you back in your place..." someone in power or above you is telling you exactly where you belong, "we'll ride a thousand miles to find out we are empty..." which in the case of icarus if he were to ride a thousand miles(into the sky because his goal was to touch the sun) he would see all the stars and the unending beauty of space, and he would realize his life is nothing like that beauty, "...and if i wrote out our sins it would read a thousand lies" meaning if he wrote down what everybody told him he was doing wrong it would be lies, there isn't anything wrong with dreaming...the first verse is just saying that if you could accomplish your dreams where would you be and what would you do...like having the unattainable girl "...if you could have her..." now the second verse "losing atmosphere eyes full of stars" is just saying that you can always be full of hope, and dreams....i love this song it explains the artwork to the album...its all very center the story of icarus...the front of the cover is a burning pair of wings...and icarus incompasses the theme of the a types...which are personality types that are restless, impatiented, and aggressive...something that i think icarus was