I was reflecting on the weirdness of Donald Trump refusing to concede to Joe Biden and the words that came to mind, unbidden, were:
“The players tried to take the field
the marching band refused to yield…”
From Don McLean’s American Pie.
Could Don McLean have foreseen this moment fifty years ago?
Sort of like Nostradamus foresaw moments in the future? I’m only half kidding.
American Pie is so different from, and so much better than, the rest of Don McLean’s work that it is easy to imagine that the song was written by a higher force that just expressed itself through Don McLean when he was in an altered mind-state, sort of like the state Samuel Taylor Coleridge was in when he wrote Kubla Khan.
