It was the strings of my guitar.

Joni mitchell amelia lyrics meaning. Hejira 1976 I was driving across the burning desert. Honestly Im jewish so whenever christmas comes along I feel like Im. Bob Dylan once told me that hed written Tangled up in Blue the opening song of the much-celebrated Blood on the.

It was the hexagram of the heavens. At the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976. It was also partly inspired by her breakup with drummer and backing band member John Guerin.

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. 197 rows Toronto Ontario. Joni later said about bass players and Jaco.

He is mentioned but not named. Amelia quickly becomes more than about love and turns into a rumination on life itself. This is too often the way heroin addiction ends.

Further dark symbols in this song reference the squalor sickness and desperation of the Junkies world. Further explanation would be redundant. The album Hejira was released after and inspired by several road trips Joni Mitchell had taken across the US.

It is easy to let Jonis lyrics and music transport you through this nightmare. Joni Mitchell 317 This song came out of the last night of the LA. It was the strings of my guitar.