In a message dated 12/9/2002 3:33:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude > And looking down on everything > I crashed into his arms > Amelia it was just a false alarm > > She questions whether she has really loved (rather than having been loved). > Comparing her circumstance to flying in icy altitudes and observing rather > than crashing/committing. I've thought that she was making reference to the album "Clouds" and to the naive outlook from Both Sides Now--"I've looked at clouds that way." It's as if she's looking back on her cloud ruminations and realized that her old theories about the subject aren't nearly as important as the fact that she remained distanced throughout all of it. She was trying to figure out the nature of love in Both Sides Now with the metaphors of clouds, and in Amelia she's realized that what she thought she knew was not really truth, but false alarms. Her reference in the next verse to Cactus Tree seals the deal on how the tables have turned. It is simply brilliant songwriting and becomes even richer when you're in on her self-reference. Has anyone else heard the background voicing she does as she sings "His sad request of me to kindly stay away..." I love the way she's kind of humming and making a little kid airplane sound at the last little bit of the line. Ken
