But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver, bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step.
"A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile, and I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a while.
The lyrics appear to be about a satanic communist take-over of America after a nuclear explosion has destroyed the ecosystem. Upon looking up and reading the lyrics my suspicion was more than confirmed. Like most people in America and elsewhere in the English speaking world I've heard the refrain "bye, bye Miss American pie" wailing into my eardrums a thousand times and never had a clue what its singer was talking about, nor, frankly, did I give a dam, having never heard of Don McLean before or after his more or less one-hit wonder.īut today I got a clue as to its meaning after reading a news story about Asian and Indian immigration into the United States that contained the following sentence: "The Indian American Leadership Initiative is an organization that seeks to entice more Indian Americans into politics, the 'last slice of the American pie'."Īs soon as I read those words the song "American Pie" jumped into my head and it occurred to me that maybe what the song was about was the take-over of America by foreign elements. The destruction of the United States as a free nation. Even though neither Jagger nor any of the other members of the Rolling Stones had any idea that someone had just been killed 20 feet away, their seeming callousness by continuing their set was seen as a punctuation mark that close out the 1960s in much the same way as the tragic plane crash closed out the 1950s in the mind of McLean.The line "the day the music died" is symbolic of The catastrophe that was the Altamont Music Festival on December 6, 1969, where a group of Hells Angels were hired to provide security for the event for $500 worth of beer, involved one of the Hells Angels murdering 18-year-old Meredith Hunter for brandishing a gun. Satan Laughing With Delight at Altamontĭespite McLean’s protestations to the contrary, it seems to follow that Jagger would be the ultimate villain in the song.
His main thrust to the lyrics was lamenting the loss of the American Dream at both the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 and “ The Day the Music Died,” the plane crash in 1959 that took the lives of Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper. Is Bob Dylan really “The Jester?” Did McLean hate Mick Jagger so much that he made him “Satan?” Is the “girl who sang the blues” really Janis Joplin? For the record, pardon the pun, McLean has disavowed each of these theories. In the 52 years since Don McLean recorded “American Pie,” there have been countless theories about what the lyrics mean.
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