bruce, poor guy, that is a long time to be driven crazy! lol...
my opinion of this song is that her line 'amelia it was just a false alarm'
is not meant to have a subject in each verse, instead it serves as sort of a
chorus (in that it is repeated each time) yes, it is describing a love
affair that did not work out...& each verse gives us more information about
what she is feeling or doing as she is going through the process of
realization, healing, etc...i've always felt hejira was a sister song to
amelia, but one where she had come to terms more with the loss...in amelia
she seems to be still processing
>OK. After many years and hundreds of listens, what are the 'false
alarms' in Amelia?
In the Icarus verse I understand the false alarm to be a love affair
that didn't work out. But what about in the other verses? They all end in
'it was just a false alarm.' What does IT refer to? There isn't an obvious
subject for the pronoun. This has been driving me a little crazy for almost
30 years now.Bruce<<
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