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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

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.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield ...

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn't take one more step

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

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.

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

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

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.