# Seeing Yourself in a Song -or- I'm so vain I almost think that song is about me

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 22, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-yourself-in-a-song-or-im-so-vain-i-almost-think-that-song-is-about-me/814640 "2018-05-22T23:16:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-yourself-in-a-song-or-im-so-vain-i-almost-think-that-song-is-about-me/814640/41 "2018-05-26T01:29:15Z")

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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> Perfect soundtrack to the life of a lonely, alienated teen. And now a lonely middle aged woman :o
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> Yikes; sorry to be so gloomy.

Helllllloooo, Wookie!

Er, um, fifty years ago deep questions were answered. Now they only suggest you slash your wrists. Back then they recommended it. See: Most everything by the Eagles

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**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-yourself-in-a-song-or-im-so-vain-i-almost-think-that-song-is-about-me/814640/42 "2018-05-26T01:33:44Z")

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> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> Oh well, I think having too much on one’s mind is no great confessional around here, but rather a requirement :D.

It seems there’s more to life than just to live it.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-yourself-in-a-song-or-im-so-vain-i-almost-think-that-song-is-about-me/814640/43 "2018-05-26T03:26:36Z")

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> [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](#):
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> I am a rock, I am an island… and a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries.

Fuck, yeah. I was 12, so was she. Senior year we had a calendar showing the hottest juniors. 50% lived on my block.

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