Amelia - Joni Mitchell

I was driving across the burning desert

When I spotted six jet planes

Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain

It was the hexagram of the heavens

It was the strings of my guitar

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

The drone of flying engines

Is a song so wild and blue

It scrambles time and seasons if it gets through to you

And then your life becomes a travelogue

Of picture postcard charms

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

Now people will tell you where they’ve gone

They’ll tell you where to go

But till you get there yourself you will never really know

Where some have found their paradise

Others just come to harm

Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm

I wish that she was here tonight

It’s so hard to obey

Her sad request of me to kindly stay away

So this is how I hide the hurt

As the road leads cursed and charmed

I tell Amelia, it was just a false alarm

A ghost of aviation

She was swallowed by the sky

Or by the sea, like me she had a dream to fly

Like Icarus ascending

On beautiful foolish arms

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

Now maybe I’ve never really loved

I guess that is the truth

I’ve spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude

And looking down on everything

I crashed into her arms

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel

To shower off the dust

And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust

I dreamed of 747s

Over geometric farms

Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms