Gene analyzed American Pie in the chat update! That's so awesome--I
never knew who the jester was. NOW it finally sort of makes sense.
Yeah I know this is on the web, but I never got around to looking it
up. I saw Don McLean on the 4th of July with the Boston Pops a few
years ago--it was great! He only sang American Pie and Vincent, but
those are the only 2 songs I know by him anyway, so that was fine. I
was always confused because I thought it was about 1 specific day the
music died, when the plane crashed in 1959. I didn't realize it was
about multiple days and multiple events involving multiple musicians.
He says he has no idea what the last part of section 6 is about:
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
Well I don't know for sure, of course, but I would think it is about
the sadness everyone felt on the multiple days the music died or
something like that. An era was over and he was using music as an
analogy to religion or something. The music Gods were out of the
picture, maybe? Anyone have another interpretation?
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