Slice

 

Ever since I was a senior in highschool and I found out there were meanings to all the lyrics in Don Maclean's American Pie, I told my friend I wanted to find out what they all were and began studying Rock and Roll. So The overplayed song was always there like the Mississippi River, it just kept flowing, you know ?

It grew quite stale to my ears on the radio and I felt it needed another song to freshen it up.

The 98 Rock morning DJ in the 1990s was named Sea Bass and one morning he was talking to a caller to the show, and just before Seabass hung up, he called the caller 'home slice'.

That really moved me, it was very inspiring. I thought 'That's America.'

I recalled that salutation very clearly when I believe I was inspired to write the Slice lyrics at my camp on the St Pete town line the words just flowed out like it was truly inspired by something divine.

Slice

There was a time a long, long time ago

Chevys and levees played on the radio

No cell phones, just 20,000 lights

Swaying on a saturday night alright

Can you imagine that slice of time

Rock and roll was young

People stood in line

To hear music that played into their lives

That you could carry till the day you die

Hey man sing me a song

When we were everyone

We were more than just a slice of American Pie

Have you read my blog today

300 million little USA's

Your doorstep is just a click away

We'll get together one of these days

How can you be as nice as me

You're not from the same slice as me

Where do we go from here my friend

Is this the way our story ends

Hey man sing me a song

When we were everyone

We were more than just a slice of American Pie

I can't stop singing along..

Can you join in... come on

Are we more than just a slice of American Pie

We're top down lovers

It's saturday night

The band's running

And it feels so right

The moon's dancing and the stars are free

I caught your heart on a summer breeze

Whatever was or what's meant to be

Our melodies are memories

There was a time a long, long time ago

Chevys and levees played on the radio

No cell phones, just 20,000 lights

Swaying on a saturday night alright

Hey man sing me a song

When we were everyone

We were more than just a slice of American Pie

I can't stop singing along

Can you join in, come on

Are we more than just a slice of American Pie

We're more than a slice

We're more than just a slice of American Pie

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