Song Analysis

Song: American Pie
Artist: Don McLean
Genre: Rock
Release: Oct. 1971

It's referring back to the older days when things were just fun and nobody had problems with life and it was all about having fun. I think that he is trying to say that everything is changing and nobody will have fun with life anymore and that all the great american country is changing for the worst.

"Bye, bye Miss American pie"
"Now, for ten years we've been on our own"
"A generation lost in space"

Lots of things had been going on around the time.. A few years before this song was released the civil war ended. There was a bombing attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C., in the same year it was written. Some of the best songs in history were released durring this time. It was getting towards the end of the Vietnam War when the song came out. There were many things affecting the USA durring this time period.

The Nixon Doctrine just happened durring the Vietnam War, thats when Richard Nixon withdrew 150,000 soliders from the war.