But now for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a Rolling Stone. Remember in the Fifties you had faith, you had the Bible, you had family, you had all of these things that were there. “For ten years now we've been on our own. Glenn played more of the song, reaching the part where McLean sings “Now for 10 years we’ve been on our own”. But now you're starting to believe that music will save your soul.”

You would do things because the Bible told you so. She's moved on from all of those things just as America began to move on from all of those things that faith would help you, that faith, you would do it through faith. So the girl moves on to somebody else, leaving him with his truck and the carnation. “But music is the metaphor for life in America. He then talks about, do you have faith in rock and roll, that music will save your mortal soul.” That is the representation of the faith in the Fifties. He asked her about faith and whether she believes, no matter what, if the Bible tells her so. and here he's talking about the book of love, which was a song by the Monotones in 1957 and he asked her about faith. “So in the second verse he goes back to his childhood and he goes back to sock hops in the gym and the pickup trucks and. I bought into the idea that America was the greatest.” “So America is the greatest country of all and it was an era that believed in America. Watch the commercial Glenn is referring to below: This actually goes back into the 1950s and a Dinah Shore commercial for Chevy,” Glenn explained. Let's just start there on the simple part because Chevy, just think of Chevy and mom and apple pie.

“ I've never understood I drove the Chevy to the levee, I didn't know what that was. Many people think that the song “American Pie” is about the death of Buddy Holly and other musicians in a plane crash, but Glenn presented a reading of the lyrics on radio and showed how it could also be seen as a warning against the danger of violent uprisings like what is happening now with Occupy Wall Street. He was specifically referring to songs like “Revolution” by The Beatles, which was clearly suspicious of violent revolution and uprisings, as well as “American Pie” by Don McLean. They try to do this every step of the way and they've done it with much of music,” Glenn said on radio this moring They're trying tried to do it with ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and the ‘Adventure of the Chronicles of Narnia’. 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.

American pie song explained