![]() The breakdown of the tune combines the collaborative efforts of 61 people. has a separate page for each of the song’s six verses, plus ones for the chorus and cultural context. Setting aside the culture-warrior rhetoric (who’s “they”?), Beck was actually just taking part in a grand American tradition: treating the 800+ words of McLean’s 1971 single like a Talmudic scroll. They try to do this every step of the way and they’ve done it with much of music.” They’re trying to do it now with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and they are saying that that has nothing to do with Jesus and Christianity. ![]() “Our culture has erased the meaning of anybody who tried to issue a warning,” Beck told listeners. The song chronicled the death of old American ideals, Beck argued-and offered a dark prophecy about the years to come. Three years ago, the conservative pundit used his radio show to spin out a line-by-line lyrical interpretation of McLean's 1971 classic. Shortly after reading the news that Don McLean had sold the original lyrics sheet for “American Pie” at auction for $1.2 million, I found myself on a website I don’t visit often:.
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