“McLean revealed the meaning in the song’s lyrics: ‘Basically in American Pie things are heading in the WRONG DIRECTION’.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song))
The Prophetic Lyric:
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I SAW SATAN LAUGHING WITH DELIGHT
The day the music died
HE WAS SINGIN’BYE, BYE Miss American Pie [God’s favor has left America – see my book EXODUS]
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry [no relief now]
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye [as in the days of Noah, they were eating and drinking before the flood took them]
Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die [no hope for the spiritually un-prepared]And in the streets the CHILDREN SCREAMED
The LOVERS CRIED, and the poets dreamed
But NOT A WORD WAS SPOKEN
The CHURCH BELLS ALL WERE BROKENAnd the three men I admire most
THE FATHER, SON, AND THE HOLY GHOST
THEY CAUGHT THE LAST TRAIN FOR THE COAST
The documentary The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie, was released on the Paramount+ in 2022.