Icicle works

"Icicle works" is a song about mental health breakdowns, psychosis and treatment. It continues, musically from its chilly sibling, "Hypothermia".

Lyrics

Stepping out
 Onto a slope
 Your feet dragging
 As you fasten your rope
 
 Climbing up
 Away from the others
 Reaching the top
 Your stomach flutters
 
 Over the scape
 You see a creature
 Standing with a mirror
 Reflecting the future
 
 It looks like you
 With swollen pupils
 Representing past mistakes
 And making them fruitful
 
 Snowflakes settling
 In the shapes of your dreams
 With icicle works triggering
 Suppression of your mean
 
 Chilled-drops collect in your lashes
 Blurring your sight of the scene
 Rotating winds and dark shadows
 Remind you where you have been
 Chilled-drops collect in your lashes
 Blurring your sight of the scene
 Rotating winds and dark shadows
 Remind you where you have been
 
 After what feels like
 A hundred years
 The team reaches you
 But they notice your fear
 
 You babble about
 The haunting creature
 That showed you everything
 You needed to be here
 
 Your mouth foaming
 You feel a pinch
 The feeling of frost
 Moving inch by inch
 
 You see a face
 And how much you missed her
 But then you realise
 You don't have a sister
 
 Snowflakes settling
 In the shapes of your dreams
 With icicle works triggering
 Suppression of your mean
 
 Snowflakes settling
 In the shapes of your dreams
 With icicle works triggering
 Suppression of your mean
 
 Chilled-drops collect in your lashes
 Blurring your sight of the scene
 Rotating winds and dark shadows
 Remind you where you have been
 Chilled-drops collect in your lashes
 Blurring your sight of the scene
 Rotating winds and dark shadows
 Remind you where you have been

Versions

• Appears on Dark matters.

Personnel

• Written, produced and performed by Max Herring and Daniel Bailey-Graham.