What song did someone else decide was your theme?

in high school a girl told me neil young's like a hurricane reminded her of me

a few years later i realised i'd probably missed out on a good thing

Like A Hurricane
Neil Young

Once I thought I saw you
in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light
from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam
I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes
turning once to fire.
You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away.
I am just a dreamer,
but you are just a dream,
You could have been
anyone to me.
Before that moment
you touched my lips
That perfect feeling
when time just slips
Away between us
on our foggy trip.
You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away.
You are just a dreamer,
and I am just a dream.
You could have been
anyone to me.
Before that moment
you touched my lips
That perfect feeling
when time just slips
Away between us
on our foggy trip.
You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I'm getting blown away.

Now here's an interesting thread! I can never name a song/character/actress who I think is like me, but my friends have.

The song I most remember being tied to me was Dear Prudence by an old boyfriend. Funny enough, I now think he was way more prudent than I.

My first wife chose "You're so Vain" for me.
I've asked the question before, but will again: If the song's not about him, who is it about?

I was just thinking of that while looking up pics of James Taylor for bermbits.

I love that line, though -- even if it is about him, it's poking fun at the fact that he'd assume so...

here you go
http://www.carlysimon.com/vain/vain.htm

Here is a scoop! Songs are fictional works. It is likely that Simon based the song on one or more persons and events that may have actually occurred and those that didn't.

I have attnded countless songwriting seminars, many as a member of the Nashville Songwriter's Association, it is almost unheard of for a writer to write a song literally about one person and actual events. For one, the format makes it very difficult to do and two, we are song writers not journalists.

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Not all songs are fictional. Many are literally composed of words describing whatever pain, joy or whatever a person is or has gone through. It may be difficult to get the lyrics and music to fit together but it can be done. As whats-his-name said years back 'Nothing is impossible'

You have to believe Roxxxanne....believe...

Believe and it can be real and be yours.

One summer when I was a camp counsellor, some of my campers
decided "George of the Jungle" was my theme song. It was way off the
mark. I did not hit a single tree all summer.

But what a cool song - you should here Led Zepellin cover it...

I can't remember the title or words, but a young lady once said that I was very like the song that goes Da Da Dee dee d'd' dee daaarrr dum do dee do darrr.

I could see why.

I think Ellpus' theme song would have to be "Shaft."

Heres mine

http://www.webhamster.com/

OK - a mate and his girlfriend decided Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America' was my song when I was about 17 - mostly for the lines

Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I've got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot

Used to piss me off at the time - now I just think they were a little sad.

I just remembered this. I was introducing a friend of mine to the music of Tom Waits, when this song came on he told me that this should be my personal anthem. I have to admit it rings true.

All my friends are married
every Tom and Dick and Harry
you must be strong
to go it alone
here's to the bachelors
and the bowery bums
and those who feel that they're the ones
who are better off without a wife

I like to sleep until the crack of noon
midnight howlin' at the moon
goin' out when I wan to, comin' home when I please
I don't have to ask permission
if I want to go out fishing
and I never have to ask for the keys

never been no Valentino
had a girl who lived in Reno
left me for a trumpet player
didn't get me down
he was wanted for assault
though he said it weren't his fault
well the coppers rode him right
out of town

I like to sleep until the crack of noon
midnight howlin' at the moon
goin' out when I wan to, comin' home when I please
I don't have to ask permission
if I want to go out fishing
and I never have to ask for the keys

selfish about my privacy
as long as I can be with me
we get along so well I can't believe
I love to chew the fat with folks
and listen to all your dirty jokes
I'm so thankful for these friends
I do receive

Amigo, you just rocketed to the top of my most doable a2ker list.

I was given "Los Bastardos" by Primus. I was happy about that.

I'm closer to a damn blue collar tweeker.