#oh joni

[thepredatorywasp]

i could drink i case of you and still i'd be on my feet....

[my-wildflwr]

Just when you’re getting a taste for worship they starts bringing out the hammers and the boards and the nails

[iamacanal]

Oh for fucks sake this is like watching Raffaella Carrà with Boney M all over again.

[ledbythreads]

“Led Zeppelin was very courageous and outspoken about liking my music, but others wouldn’t admit it. My market was women, and for many years the bulk of my audience was black, but straight white males had a problem with my music...”

emphasis mine - Joni Mitchell in Trampled Under Foot | Hoskyns | 2012

[ledbythreads]

In 2017 Robert Plant was interviewed by the BBC’s Matt Everitt (The guy he does Digging Deep with) for Matt’s programme ‘The first time’ - at the very end Matt asks him to pick a song and Robert says he chooses Amelia by Joni Mitchell and says

“this is the story of my life”

so here it is:

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

Amelia * it was just a false alarm

The drone of flying engines

Is a song so wild and blue

It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you

Then your life becomes a travelogue

Of picture post card charms

Amelia it was just a false alarm

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

Oh, Amelia it was just a false alarm

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

I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm

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

Amelia it was just a false alarm

Maybe I've never really loved

I guess that is the truth

I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitudes

And looking down on everything

I crashed into his arms

Amelia it was just a false alarm

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

Dreams Amelia - dreams and false alarms

© 1976; Crazy Crow Music

*Amelia Earhart

so you can see why I found that fascinating

This thing ships itself; airships it; 747 starships dreams it; crashes into his arms like Icarus

[bumbumtugboat]

I think one day I will get a tattoo dedicated to Joni Mitchell she is such an inspiration to me 

[kashmirandlace]

Oh, you’re a mean old daddy, but you’re out of sight

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