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I heard an analysis of this song years ago, and you are pretty close Billy, ,but there are some parts i have to disagree..

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Optimist Prime
a generation lost in space (a tv show, also a slang term for trippin on lsd)with no time left to start again

woodstock was in the summer 1969, as was the when americans walked on the moon..which is what i think that he was referring to

so come on jack be nimble, jack be quick (a nursrey rhyme)
Jack Flash sat on a candle stick (this seems late, but MacClean is all over the place in this verse. Its a refernce to John Kennedy.)
cuz fire is the devil's only friend (something from religion i think)
and as I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage (I don't know...maybe Elvis, or any other music person, Something tells me its Rick(y) Nelson, and then the whole garden party incident makes a lot more sence)
No angel born in hell, could break that satan's spell (whoever he's talking about was a good preformer and as the flames climbed high into the night (from the plane crash)
to light the sacrifical rite (the deaths of those people were avoidible and unneccary)
i saw satan laughing with delight (his religion's creeping in there again)

i'm pretty sure that this is referring to mick jagger & the rolling stone's performance and the riot that insued afterwards at the altamont music festival