Don McLean: Everybody Loves Me, Baby Meaning

Everybody Loves Me, Baby Lyrics

<SPOKEN>: One, two, three, four!



Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command

My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand

The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead

But all the...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 17th 2024 !⃝

   The song is Adolph Hitler singing to the US. It speaks to his megalomaniacal nature and messianic complex.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 5th 2016 !⃝

   He is singing about [insert name of your most hated political figure here]. And I'll bet you can prove it! I've always loved this song.
3. anonymous

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   Sep 3rd 2012 !⃝

   I heared that the 'me' in this song was the US and the 'you' was Vietnam
   
   Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command
   Clearly about the military and economical might of the US
   
   My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
   The US claiming rescources, most notably oil, in foreign countries
   
   The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
   America as the devout godlovers, and the enemies are Hirohito (devastated empire after WWII) and Adolf Hitler (died in WWII)
   
   But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed
   Yet Vietnam didn't 'love' the US
   
   Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy
   And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
   And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
   I have no idea on all this
   
   My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved
   The liberated countries were thankful, after WWII
   
   Now, no land is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name
   The people's name = communism
   
   By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
   Communism only works in theory, in practice the leaders are opressors and dictators
   
   Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild
   once more, devout
   
   And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled
   Oscar wilde was british, and the US, as an english speaking country, is ''twice removed'' from great britain (possibly also because wilde fled to France
   
   the rest is obvious enough, thank you
4. anonymous

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   May 4th 2012 !⃝

   Basicly, everything in the song is sarcasm. It kinda...means the opposite of what it's saying. McClean was never very popular until the American Pie album, which this song is part of came out. I almost could say that he wrote this out of depression.

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