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“has the same meaning as MacArthur Park and Blinded by the Light”

Naw.

MacArtnur Park is meaningless. Both Blinded by the Light and American Pie have meaningful passages and overall themes, as well as pure poetry.

Blinded by the Light is about playing in a New Jersey bar band, a kind of slice of life. e.g.

“Some silicone sister with her manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
He said i’l turn you on sonny to something strong
If you play the song with the funky breaks”

Dude with big breast-implant girlfriend offers him good drugs if he plays a song he likes.

“Go cart Mozart checking out the weather chart, seeing if it’s safe out side.”

Speed freak musician looking outside to see if the cops are around.

Etc...

What every line means is hard to say, but it’s not MacArthur Park.

The song came about when Columbia president Clive Davis, upon listening to an early version of Greetings from Asbury Park N.J., felt the album lacked a potential single. Springsteen wrote this and “Spirit in the Night” in response.

According to Springsteen, the song came about from going through a rhyming dictionary in search of appropriate words. The first line of the song, “Madman drummers, bummers, and Indians in the summers with a teenage diplomat” is autobiographical—”Madman drummers” is a reference to drummer Vini Lopez, known as “Mad Man” (later changed to “Mad Dog”); “Indians in the summer” refers to the name of Springsteen’s old Little League team; “teenage diplomat” refers to himself. The remainder of the song tells of many unrelated events, with the refrain of “Blinded by the light, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night”.

“MacArthur Park” was written and composed by Jimmy Webb in the summer and fall of 1967.[1] The inspiration for the song was his relationship and breakup with Susie Horton,[5] who later married David Ronstadt, a cousin of singer Linda Ronstadt. MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, California, was where the two occasionally met for lunch and spent their most enjoyable times together.[4] At that time (the middle of 1965), Horton worked for a life insurance company whose offices were located just across the street from the park.[4] In an interview with Newsday magazine in October 2014, Webb explained:

Everything in the song was visible. There’s nothing in it that’s fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it’s a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper.[5]

Webb and Horton remained friends, even after her marriage to another man. The breakup was also the primary influence for “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” another selection of Webb’s authorship and composition.[4] After his relationship breakup, Webb stayed for a while at the residence of Buddy Greco, upon whose piano the piece was composed and originally dedicated. Greco closed all his shows with this number for the most recent forty years.