This is a really sad song. Sometimes you need to hear them. This song reminds me of my Dad and the mad murals he painted (that I loved and I miss) that unlike Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings don’t survive him anywhere apart from our minds on the plus side Dad died with all his ears in tact..

Don McLean was also one of the musicians that Ma and Dad agreed on, so I heard a lot of them growing up but I only really got this one when I was a grown up.