DON MCLEAN'S E-T-T-S DECADE.

Cold Spring Shops posts have taken the view that the end of the American High came with three shots in Dallas.  Singer Don McLean saw the ominous signs even before the day the news was on the doorstep.  "It seemed clear from the beginning that McLean was referring to a defining moment in music, with the lyrics pointing to something that has been lost and can’t be retrieved."  American Pie is free-verse poetry, and as such, it can be parsed, analyzed, scanned for hidden meanings.  "The sense of disillusion and loss that the song transmits isn’t just about deaths in the world of music, but also about a generation that could no longer believe in the utopian dreams of the 1950s."  Yes, and in a more tragic way than the sorts who thought it so groovy now that people are finally getting together could ever comprehend.