"Amelia" by Joni Mitchell
I was ______ 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 ______ of my guitar
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and ______
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets through to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue
Of picture-post-card-charms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
People will tell you ______ 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 ______
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 ______
So this is how I hide the ______
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 ______ to fly
Like Icarus ascending
On beautiful foolish arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
Maybe I've never really loved
I guess ______ is the truth
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
I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
To shower off the dust
And I ______ on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s
Over geometric farms
Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms
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Describe how Mitchell uses imagery to establish a tone in the last stanza.