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Don McClean explains American Pie

waveguide

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this is awesome!

"it was just some personal stuff i was going through"


(if you don't "get" this, there are a few good vids on youtube put together by people who remember all the references in the lyrics, making the meaning very fucking McClear)


kids: if you ever wonder what's up with this crazy america place, remember, things like this guy's song may have been the only clues you had about adults and mass deception. but fuck those clues, because cocksuckers like this guy aren't going to stand with their statements, so they can be safe.

"well i would say what the song is about, but i'm too busy sucking fraidycat cock because i love to yumm slurp slurrp"

fuck, i guess everyone deserves to be safe, right? liberty, security..


give that fucker a piece of american pie!

thanks for your confession, we'll make sure your death isn't too slow and uncomfortable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...-pie_n_7024486.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592


The Huffington Post | By Jessica Goodman

Posted: 04/08/2015 9:50 am EDT

Don McLean's manuscript for "American Pie" went up for auction at Christie's on Tuesday and sold for $1.2 million, and though he's never really spoken publicly about the song's cryptic meaning, he somewhat spilled the beans in the auction house's catalog.

"Basically, in 'American Pie' things are heading in the wrong direction," McLean said in the interview. "It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense. I was around in 1970 and now I am around in 2015 … there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'"

McLean has been cagey about the song for decades, but has always insisted that "American Pie" was inspired by musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P "The Big Bopper" Richardson, who died in a tragic plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959. It became known as "the day the music died." But McLean never explained the song's 800-plus words, which he wrote 13 years after the accident. "That song didn't just happen," McLean had said in 1982. "It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past."

In the recent Christie's interview, he now calls the track "an indescribable photograph of America that I tried to capture in words and music."
 

Midnite Toker

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I remember when they played the piss outta that tune. At times it would be on 2 of the 3 am pop stations at once. The 45 took up both sides.
Golden~mT
 

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I needs someone to explain to me on how
to get me some of that American pie.......

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LEF

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The blonde girl looks like she just arrived from the 80s.

Coochie coochie miss american pie

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ronbo51

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American Pie was one of the first songs I learned on acoustic guitar in 7'th grade in 1970 along with "Behind Blue Eyes" by the Who. It was well explained all the symbols and references were well known, Bob Dylan in "a voice that came from you and me", and Mick Jagger as Satan and all that shit. McLean's other great song, which I liked more was called Starry Starry Night. It's about Vincent Van Gogh and his vision, his tortured life and the beauty of expression and art. It is tragically well written using language in an almost perfect balance of description and emotion. Anyone who has stood in front of a real Van Gogh has felt the quiet sadness hiding coyly behind the beauty.

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
 

Weird

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Not everyone sells out for their piece of the American dreams but sometimes it can feel that way.
 

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