[Verse 1]

I was driving across the burning desert

When I spotted six jet planes

Leaving six white vapor trails

Across the bleak terrain

It was the hexagram of the heavens

It was the strings of my guitar

[Refrain]

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

[Verse 2]

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-postcard charms

[Refrain]

Oh, Amelia, it was just a false alarm

[Verse 3]

People will tell you where they've gone

They'll tell you where to go

But till you get there yourself

You never really know

Where some have found their paradise

Others just come to harm

[Refrain]

Oh, Amelia, it was just a false alarm

[Verse 4]

I wish that he was here tonight

It's so hard to obey

His sad request of me

To kindly stay away

So this is how I hide the hurt

As the road leads cursed and charmed

[Refrain]

I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm

[Verse 5]

A ghost of aviation

She was swallowed by the sky

Or by the sea

Like me, she had a dream to fly

Like Icarus ascending

On beautiful foolish arms

[Refrain]

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

[Verse 6]

Maybe I've never really loved

I guess that is the truth

I've spent my whole life

In clouds at icy altitude

And looking down on everything

I crashed into his arms

[Refrain]

Amelia, it was just a false alarm

[Verse 7]

I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel

To shower off the dust

And I slept on the strange pillows

Of my wanderlust

I dreamed of 747s

Over geometric farms

[Refrain]

Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms