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Joni Mitchell
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I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted six jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
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Like the hexagram of the heavens
Like the strings of my guitar
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and blue
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets through to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue
Full of picture post card charms
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
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And where some have found their paradise
Others just come to harm
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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I wish that he was here tonight
It's so hard to obey
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
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So this is how I hide the hurt
As the road leads cursed and charmed
I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm
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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
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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Maybe I've never really loved
I guess that is the truth
I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitudes
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And looking down on everything
I crashed into his arms
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
To shower off the dust
And I slept on strange pillows of my wanderlust
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I dreamed of 747s
Over geometric farms
Dreams Amelia, dreams and false alarms
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