There is more than one artist with the name Ikon;

1) IKON is an Aust… Read Full Bio ↴There is more than one artist with the name Ikon;

1) IKON is an Australian goth/darkwave band that has gained an international following. Chris McCarter(vocals, guitar, programming) and Dino Molinaro (bass) began to create music as high school students in Melbourne, Australia in 1988. In 1991, their band Death in the Dark, which included Michael Carrodus on vocals, changed its name to IKON.

IKON has released five studio albums, five EPs and seventeen singles, with additional unique versions that have been produced for Germany, America and Russia. The band’s last full-length release, Destroying the World to Save It, attained number 21 on the Native DJ World Charts for best album of 2005.

IKON has frequently toured Australia, Europe and the UK. IKON has played on the same bill as The Sisters of Mercy, H.I.M., Soft Cell, Death in June, London After Midnight and The Mission. IKON has performed at the Eurorock Festival (2001) in Belgium and at the M’era Luna Festival (2002) in Hildesheim, Germany before an audience of more than 15,000 people. The band has also appeared three times at the world’s largest goth festival, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, in 2003, 2005 (during that year Anthony Cornish joined the live line-up on guitar) and 2011.

In 2007, the band embarked upon ‘The Burden of History’ tour of Europe to mark the release of the singles collection (1992-2007) of the same name. The EPs League of Nations (2007) and Amongst the Runes (2008) demonstrate a progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (to be released in September 2009). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands. The single "A Line on a Dark Day" from the album will also be made into the band's first video clip.
www.ikondomain.com

2) A UK collaborative project of Elliot Ireland and Alex Rizzo, the people behind the Jalapeno label. They utilise a wide range of guest vocalists and instrumentalists to create an interesting fusion of dnb, jazz, downtempo and triphop. They have released a self-titled album and at least 2 singles, 'The Dove' and 'Tricolour'. The album took a long time to make and was created in 7 different countries with 8 different collaborations, in languages such as Portuguese and English.

From the Jalapeno Records Website on Ikon:
"As for the Ikon sound it's tricky to categorise: bossa nova melodies seem to seep effortlessly into epic cinematic productions, which mutate into slick drum and bass rhythms."
"Musically the group cites most genres as being influential to the Ikon sound, particularly jazz, funk, soul and hip hop."
"What the hell is Ikon about? "Happy coincidences," opines co-founding member Alex Rizzo with a smile."
"Ikon is about producing lush, imaginative music and recreating sounds in an original way. Give us a keyboard a string, synth or computer- Rolf Harris's stylophone and we'll play it- the quirkier the better. If there's a sound we wanna emulate we'll try and get the original materials: like a 60s bass and a 60s mic to get the right effect."
www.jalapenorecords.com

3) A religious community in Belfast with the CD "Dubh".

4) A since-disbanded Stratford-based metal band with the CD "Sterilized".

5) Ikon is a finnish thrash metal band from Kouvola, since spring 2007.

6) Ikon is a drum & bass producer duo James Smyth & Andy Walters from United Kingdom.
http://www.rolldabeats.com/artist/ikon

7) iKon (Hangul: 아이콘), stylized as iKON, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2015 by YG Entertainment. The group was first introduced in the reality survival program WIN: Who is Next as "Team B." After that, Team B went on to appear in the 2014 reality survival program Mix & Match, which determined the final seven-member lineup of iKon: B.I, Bobby, Jinhwan, Junhoe, Yunhyeong, Donghyuk and Chanwoo.

Departure
Ikon Lyrics

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If I go and lead myself astray
If I think I'm better of this way
I thought that things would come between us
I always knew that things would end this way

I tried so hard to never take the blame
I sense that things will never be the same
What ever comes of me what ever will I face

I can depart I will retrace

Now we start to move within our space
Once again a path that I will chase
Close the door return wherever you once came
There's nothing left here to save

I tried so hard to never take the blame
I sense that things will never be the same
What ever comes of me what ever will I face
I can depart I will retrace

You did depend on me
And now you've thrown it all away

At first things seemed so strange
Will you ever see the day

Overall Meaning

In Ikon's song Departure, the lyrics appear to be about a relationship that has ended. The singer of the song seems to be reflecting on their own actions and questioning whether they made the right choices. The opening lines of the first verse, "If I go and lead myself astray, If I think I'm better off this way," suggest that the singer may have made some decisions that have led to the end of the relationship. They seem to be acknowledging that they could have done things differently, but it is now too late.

The chorus of the song, "I tried so hard to never take the blame, I sense that things will never be the same, What ever comes of me what ever will I face, I can depart I will retrace," further expands on this idea. The singer seems to be struggling with the fact that the relationship has ended and is struggling to take responsibility for their actions. They acknowledge that things will never be the same and that they must accept the consequences of their actions.

The second verse, "Now we start to move within our space, Once again a path that I will chase, Close the door return wherever you once came, There's nothing left here to save," suggests that the singer is trying to move on from the relationship. They are starting a new path and are closing the door on the past. The line "There's nothing left here to save" further emphasizes this idea.

Overall, Departure appears to be a poignant song about the end of a relationship and the difficult journey of coming to terms with one's own actions and moving on.

Line by Line Meaning

If I go and lead myself astray
If I choose to abandon my current path and choose a different one that may not align with my current goals.

If I think I'm better of this way
If I believe that this new path I have chosen is better for me than the one I was previously on.

I thought that things would come between us
I knew that there would be challenges and obstacles that would make it difficult for us to remain connected.

I always knew that things would end this way
I always had a feeling that our relationship would eventually come to an end.

I tried so hard to never take the blame
I made every effort to avoid being held responsible for any issues or problems that arose.

I sense that things will never be the same
I have the feeling that our relationship has deteriorated beyond repair and that we can never return to the way things were.

What ever comes of me what ever will I face
I am prepared to deal with any challenges or consequences that may arise from my decision to depart.

I can depart I will retrace
I am free to leave and go back to where I came from.

Now we start to move within our space
We are both moving forward on our own paths, in our own directions.

Once again a path that I will chase
Once again, I am pursuing a new path in my life.

Close the door return wherever you once came
It's time to let go and move on, to return to where we started and leave this behind.

There's nothing left here to save
There is no hope of salvaging what's left of our relationship.

You did depend on me
You relied on me for support and help.

And now you've thrown it all away
And now you've disregarded all of that, and our relationship is over.

At first things seemed so strange
At first, our relationship seemed confusing and unfamiliar to me.

Will you ever see the day
Will you ever understand the impact of your actions and the consequences that have resulted from them?

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: DAVID GORDON, DAVID NEWELL, JASON MCCORD, NEIL MARTIN LIAM HUGHES, TERENCE JOHN PAUL LAVER

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