Key: F majorDifficulty: Advanced
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was driving across the burning desert
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When I spotted six jet planes
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Leaving six white vapor trails,
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across the bleak terrain
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It was the hexagram of the heavens
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It was the strings of my guitar
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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The drone of flying en gines
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Is a song so wild and blue
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It scrambles time and seasons
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If it gets through to you
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Then your life becomes a travelogue
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Of picture postcards charms
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Oh, Ame lia, it was just a false alarm
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Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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People will tell you where they've gone
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They'll tell you where to go
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But 'til you get there yourself
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You never really know
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Where some have found their paradise
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Others just come to harm
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Oh, Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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I wish that he was here tonight
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It's so hard to obey
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His sad request of me,
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to kindly stay away
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So this is how I hide the hurt
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As the road leads cursed and charmed
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I tell Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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Interlude 4
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Verse 5
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A ghost of a viation
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She was swallowed by the sky
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Or by the sea, like me,
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she had a dream to fly
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Like Icarus ascend ing
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On beautiful foolish arms
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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Verse 6
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Maybe I've vever really loved
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I guess that is the truth
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I've spent my whole life in clouds,
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at icy altitude
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And looking down on everything
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I crashed into his arms
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Amelia, it was just a false alarm
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Interlude 6
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Verse 7
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I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
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To shower off the dust
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And I slept on the strange pillows,
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of my wonderlust
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I dreamed of 7 I 47 s
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Over geometric farms
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Dreams, Amelia, dreams,
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and false alarms
Outro 1
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