American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
So when people ask me what American Pie means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
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