

I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. 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.

The line "the day the music died" is symbolic of
