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American Pie by Don McLean

Rome Burning and the Fall of America

Part 1 – Setting the Stage

“American Pie” has been argued about for more than fifty years. People have called it a riddle, a nostalgic scrapbook of the ’60s, or just a clever tribute to Buddy Holly. Don McLean himself stayed mostly quiet, letting the speculation swirl.

But in the last decade, the mask has slipped. In interviews, McLean has finally admitted that American Pie is not just a story about music—it is a story about a civilization in decline, Rome burning in American clothing. And when you put his own words together with the official music videos and a “deleted” verse, the picture becomes much clearer—and much darker.

I do not believe American Pie was just clever cultural commentary. I believe God showed Don McLean something real about the end of America, and that the “deleted verse” with its precise five-year marker is evidence of that. At some point, McLean sold the rights to the song and was required to compromise that verse and was not allowed to tell the meaning, but the warning remained—and the lyrics and videos still carry a message far deeper than entertainment.

In my understanding, the specific five-year timing is not something Satan would be able to see directly; it reinforces that this is a real warning, not just a human guess, even if the vessel later sold out.

Personal note: Years ago I emailed Don McLean’s agent with my analysis of how it points to the fall of the United States and the rise of an anti-Christ system. Shortly after that email, all uploads of this iconic song disappeared from the internet for roughly three months. I cannot prove those two events were directly connected, but the timing felt like a shock reaction—panic while someone checked with higher-ups about how to respond. My sense was that the pattern had been seen and taken seriously. I have often wondered if McLean himself may even have felt a kind of relief that at least one listener finally understood what had been given to him, and I still hope to reach out to him again someday. (Don, if by chance you read this, your remedy is in Numbers 30:3 — 3-3, the remedy for Freemasons. The spiritual gender of the Church is a woman, the daughter of the Father and the betrothed of the Son.)

What Don McLean Has Now Admitted

Back in 2015, when McLean auctioned the original lyrics, people expected a great unveiling. Instead, his explanation was vague: life is becoming “less idyllic,” American Pie is “a morality song,” and “things are heading in the wrong direction.” That was it—just enough to confirm that the song is about moral drift, but not enough to pin anything down.

Then came two interviews in 2019 where he said more.

In the first of those interviews, McLean explains that when he wrote American Pie he “came up with this notion that politics and music flow parallel together forward through history.” The music, he says, is tied to what is happening politically, and “the verses get more dire each time until you get to the end.” The “good old boys” are politicians, always present, “singing ‘bye bye Miss American Pie’ almost like they are fiddling while Rome is burning.” Then he underlines the point: “All roads lead to Rome.”

In some of his early performances, you can see how heartfelt this was for him—he sometimes wept while singing the song, and his delivery of the lines “the church bells all were broken” is always mournful, not triumphant (in contrast to Madonna’s version).

He may not say the sentence, “This is about the end of America,” but that is exactly what he describes. Rome burned. Rome fell. America is walking the same road.

In the second interview, McLean adds two critical pieces:

  • He says the song arrived in one piece as he sat with his guitar, “like a genie out of a bottle.”
  • He insists that he has always been extremely careful with his words—he wrote exactly what he wanted to say.

He also jokes that Bob Dylan would make a great “jester,” if Dylan were the jester—which, he implies, he is not. That implies the jester in the song is not a random artistic figure, but a real, specific man tied to politics in our time.

Put simply:

  • The theme is admitted: America following Rome into judgment.
  • The precision is admitted: every word chosen carefully.
  • The political focus is admitted: real politicians are in view, including a real “jester.”

That is the foundation this series will stand on.

The “Deleted” Verse – Hints of Judgment and Redemption

There is also a “deleted verse” that did not make the final cut of the song. Its key lines speak of McLean dropping to his knees, promising God everything he could give “if only He would make the music live,” and God promising it would live again—“but this time one would equal four,” and that “in five years four had come to mourn” and “the music was reborn.”

It reads like someone wrestling with God over much more than a music career.

My interpretation is this:

“One would equal four” – In the album version, McLean ends by naming “the three men I admire most – the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” In the rebirth, one person will be joined to all Three, making four. Each redeemed person will be united with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

“Four had come to mourn” – After devastation, a handful (individuals each now joined to the Three) return to the land in mourning. For me, this resonates with the picture in Revelation 18: people who have obeyed Christ’s call to “come out of her, my people” may someday return to a broken homeland, not as citizens of a proud empire, but as mourners ready for a new beginning. I hope I will be among them.

I believe the five years is the time between the first judgment of the U.S., as Babylon the Great of Revelation 18, and the return of Jesus. I am not setting dates, but if this understanding is correct, it is a major prophecy of our time. Scripture says no one knows the day or hour (Matthew 24:36), yet also that God does nothing without revealing it to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7), and Daniel and Revelation give specific counts of months and days. So I expect God to make the exact timing clear as we enter the final years, and this five-year marker could be one piece of that revelation given to Don McLean.

God’s Warnings

The lyrics and videos of American Pie carry a level of precision, numerology, and prophetic accuracy that goes far beyond nostalgia for the 1960s. I believe this message:

  • Announces the coming fall of the United States,
  • Signals the rise of a particular “jester” / anti-Christ figure,
  • Hints at a staged conflict between leaders (which I understand as the Trump vs. Obama struggle), and
  • Previews the kind of civil unrest and riots we are already beginning to see.

These are consistent with his stated theme (Rome burning), with the deleted verse (judgment and redemption), and with the imagery and timing markers embedded throughout both the Madonna video and his own, even though the true meaning has largely been withheld and dismissed for decades.

Outline of Four-Part Series

Because this is such a large work, I intend to cover it in four parts:

Part 1 – Setting the Stage (this article)
In this article I sketch the big-picture view and set the context for understanding the lyrics and the symbolism in the videos.

Part 2 – Madonna’s “American Pie”: The Simple Code
I begin with the Madonna video because its symbolism is simpler and more obvious, pointing directly to the destruction of the U.S. and the rise of the anti-Christ.

Part 3 – Don McLean’s “American Pie”: The Deep Decode
McLean’s video carries deeper symbolism and, as far as I know, is the earliest video to decode key Illuminati numbers, so Part 3 will focus on that numerical symbolism as a strong base for understanding later media.

Part 4 – What This Says About America’s Future
In this final part we will gather the threads—lyrics, videos, numbers, McLean’s words—to tell the story of the coming collapse of the U.S., the season of conflict, camps, and Satanic sacrifice of Christians, and to show why you might want to take seriously Jesus’ warning to “come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4).

Summary

This first part has simply laid the groundwork:

  • Don McLean has confirmed that American Pie is about the U.S. heading toward collapse, like Rome burning, and that its words are carefully chosen and tied to politics.
  • A deleted verse hints at redemption after judgment where “one would equal four.”

In Part 2, we will step into Madonna’s video and start learning the “alphabet” of this symbolism—numbers, colors, timing marks, and images that the Illuminati use over and over.