The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time," he said. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. "People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Richardson as "the day the music died."Īccording to The Guardian, Don McLean said in a 2015 interview that the lyrics are intentionally ambiguous.
They tend to forget that the lyrically dense song references the 1959 plane crash that killed legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. The original release of the song clocks in at more than eight minutes long but, generally, people remember the song's rhyming chorus, which bids farewell to "Miss American Pie." The iconic and undeniably catchy 1971 song "American Pie" is known to inspire group sing-alongs at bonfires and karaoke bars, but lyrically it's rather dark. 'Coming over you' is just really what it reports to be: 'She comes around, and she goes down on me.' It's not cryptic." We can't even believe it got onto the radio. I wrote a song about drugs and f-ing, and I'm pretty much about clean living on the road. In a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone, Jenkins added, "Yeah, it's funny. I don't think the song should be so blatant that I have to come out and say 'couples who take speed tend to break up, so don't do it.'" "I think people hear 'Semi-Charmed Life' as a happy summertime jam. It's really funny that people play it on the radio," Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins told Billboard magazine in 1997. "It's a dirty, filthy song about snorting speed and getting blow jobs. It's pretty much a fact that "Semi-Charmed Life" is the best karaoke song of all time with its frantic tempo that can leave you breathlessly trying to keep up with the lyrics.īut you may not realize that song's pace actually reflects its narrative about the brutal cycle of highs and lows that accompany a drug addiction. "Semi-Charmed Life" is by Third Eye Blind.
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