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To: yankeedame
What I want to see is a complete list of songs about themselves. I consider this the weirdest subgenre of all. Parse this frag from James Taylor's Fire and Rain:

"I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to"
Does the singer mean he walked out this morning and wrote the words "I wrote down this song"?

Others as annoyingly illogical: Your Song by Elton John, A Song For You by Leon Russell (from his first and best album,) I Write the Songs by (?) Barry Manilow, Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond. There are many others, no doubt, by uninspired songwriters walking out this or any other morning. I recall Sinatra had some songs about songs or about writing songs. Somebody make 'em stop!

135 posted on 12/18/2002 2:11:11 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Revolting cat!
I Write the Songs by (?)

Written by Bruce Johnston.

187 posted on 12/18/2002 7:27:13 PM PST by gg188
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