In his own words, from his website, Mr. McLean says"I've never analyzed the lyrics to the song. They're beyond analysis. They're poetry." He does discuss that it starts with his memories of Buddy Holly, but goes on to discuss his image of America and what it could become." As I said, in an earlier posting, McLean does not discuss exact details of the cryptic meanings, so all of us are probably wrong, and all of us are probably right......
.....except those who think the plane was American Pie.
"the growing urban legend that "American Pie" was the name of Buddy Holly’s plane the night it crashed, killing him, Ritchie Valens and the Big Boppper, is untrue. I created the term." - Don McLean, 1999
don-mclean.com/i/analysis.asp
In his own words, from his website, Mr. McLean says"I've never analyzed the lyrics to the song. They're beyond analysis. They're poetry." He does discuss that it starts with his memories of Buddy Holly, but goes on to discuss his image of America and what it could become." As I said, in an earlier posting, McLean does not discuss exact details of the cryptic meanings, so all of us are probably wrong, and all of us are probably right......
.....except those who think the plane was American Pie. "the growing urban legend that "American Pie" was the name of Buddy Holly’s plane the night it crashed, killing him, Ritchie Valens and the Big Boppper, is untrue. I created the term." - Don McLean, 1999