Lyric discussion by IMarrydDaveGrohl 

Hoohaa is right. She wrote the song about how American Pie made her feel.

All of you are wrong. Roberta Flack never even wrote this song. She saw it in a magazine while flying on a plane and looked into it further because the name caught her attention.

It was written by a girl named Lori Lieberman, who wrote it about Don McLean's song "Empty Chairs".

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