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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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New Rochelle
New York
Donald McLean III
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Pie
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.
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Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
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I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
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Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
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In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
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Bad news on the doorstepI couldn’t take one more step
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How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.
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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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That's the hard thing - getting started. You get started for a long time until you finally get to this point where people call you an icon or whatever they call you. It's nice. Suddenly the audience is with you more and they help you along and it's not so much that you have to do everything.
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Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.
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Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.
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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
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