"American Pie" by Don McLean: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Last Train for the Coast
There are some who believe that this is a reference to the three most generationally scarring assassinations of the era. And it's also an interesting bookend to the line, do you have faith in God above because the Bible tells you so from earlier in the song. The 60s dream had died, there's rioting in the streets, we live in a godless world. Any references the Holy Trinity, the three men he admires most, the father, the son and the Holy Ghost catch in the last train for the coast.
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