Now I think I know what you tried to say to me How you suff… - Don McLean

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Now I think I know what you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen They're not listening still... Perhaps they never will...

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Donald "Don" McLean III (born 2 October 1945) is an American singer-songwriter most famous for his 1971 songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".

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Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.
But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died?

I feel like a spinning top or a Dreidel
The spinning don't stop when you leave the cradle
You just slow down
Round and around this world you go
Spinning through the lives of the people you know
We all slow down.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen They're not list… - Don McLean

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