>>> someone else posts that Joni is the best lyricist ever and to prove that >>> he posts the words to Amelia! >>> >>> Vince >>> >>> >> Funny you mention Amelia...I played it last night at an open mic and it was >> an unreal experience...I can't think of any other song that comes close to >> it...it seems to really cross the line and become more than just a song, a >> transcending experience reaching into the very heart of life itself...the >> lyrics especially... >> >> We were talking about it today and agreed that it is one of the best songs >> ever written. Synchronicity... >> >> Victor >> >> > I remember the first time I heard it, I was on the coast listening > to a car radio, and there was this song...but the radio was coming > in so poorly, I couldn't tell whether it was Joni or Paul Simon. > > RR > > > Beautifully described!! I'm glad that you do it because there are so many > people out there who have never heard it.(people need to hear it) I'd love > to hear your rendition sometime! > > Bree > > I'm loving this thread. Just a little envious of RR for being in a car when hearing Amelia for the first time - can't think of anything more appropriate than that, other than being in a 747! I can remember when I first heard this song, too, checking out Hejira for the first time on a Saturday morning while painting in my tiny studio. Amelia comes on and everything else just stops. Of course, I'd had that experience with Joni so many times before - with I Had A King and Cactus Tree and Rainy Night House and Circle Game and Woman Of Heart And Mind and...
But Amelia was something else again. Seven verses of transcendent poetry, with every beautiful turn of phrase working on so many levels - from the biographical to the universal. Joni gives voice to all the joys and harms we find along the way during the travelogues of our lives, our flights of ecstasy on those beautiful foolish arms of Icarus, ascending to the clouds or being swallowed by the sea, whichever fate chooses... Lyricist, melodicist, vocalist, guitarist, siquomb indeed... Bob
