More specifically the song is about the blues felt due to the end of the hippy era.

Joni mitchell amelia lyrics meaning. People get that way about Joni Mitchell songs. Joni Mitchell 317 This song came out of the last night of the LA. This song was the title track of Jonis first album released after a long draught of iconic Hippy music.

Joni Mitchell is Canadian but she moved to California to be a hippie and pursue her music career the song is about her spending christmas in a place and a way that is so foreign to her -- no snow no ice skating. When I spotted six jet planes. Mitchell ends every verse except the last with Amelia it was just a false alarm Mitchell sings of flying engines scrambling time and seasons until your.

Verse 1 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. The album Hejira was released after and inspired by several road trips Joni Mitchell had taken across the US. When the dust settles Joni Mitchell may stand as.

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 Then your life becomes a travelogue of picture-post-card-charms Oh Amelia it was just a false alarm People will tell you where theyve gone theyll tell you where to go. Tell those girls that youve got German Measles honey tell em youve got germs. Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius 1979.

This is too often the way heroin addiction ends. Amelia quickly becomes more than about love and turns into a rumination on life itself. Watch official video print or download text in PDF.

Is a song so wild and blue. Hejira 1976 I was driving across the burning desert. You couldnt get them to change to get a round full-bodied tone.