| Joni Mitchell – Amelia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Most people have forgotten a key component to this poem/song. The song features a reference to Icarus, a classical Greek myth that exemplifies the Greek conception of the middle way. Like Amelia, and Joni, Icarus was too ambitious and fell from the heavens to the sea. What this implies is that every love Mitchell has had is not accomplished, due to her overreaching. Te song ends on a very pessimistic note, with love being compared to "dreams and false alarms". This means that each love the speaker has had was synonymous with impossibilities and falsehoods (as the "false alarm" image relates to Earhart's rescuers never actually rescuing her). Hence, the speaker's search for love is basically a false alarm. She can't be save from crashing into the sea. | |
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