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- From: steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (Steven Malikoff)
- Subject: Re: American Pie
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.064735.15788@syacus.acus.oz.au>
- Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:47:35 GMT
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- "Jason M. Roth" <jr4q+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- : <<"American Pie" discussion>>
- : My wife and I spent an evening attempting to decipher the lyrics, which
- : for the most part isn't hard except that the blasted album never provided
- : printed lyrics
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- <<lyrics dissertation>>
- : The players tried to take the field
- : the marching band refused to yield.
- : Do you recall what was the feel the day the music died?
- ^^^^^^^^
- I disagree. I quite clearly hear "revealed", not "the feel".
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- : And as the planes climbed high into the night
- ^^^^^^
- Are you sure? "flames" seems better.
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- Anyway, it's hard to figure out the exact allusions (like 'Lucy in the Sky..').
-
- Steve Malikoff.
- steven@syacus.acus.oz.au
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