I hear her call 'sweet dreams' and I forget how to dream

He went to France on business, met a woman there named Simone.

You were with an underworld spy or the wife of close friend

Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf, it was apricot.

I hear her call 'sweet dreams' and I forget how to dream

This one really warps my head. The vain person thinks the song is about himself... and he's right!!

I believe they call that steam.

I've counted how many times Simon says 'Don't you' in this song and its about ten or eleven times. I couldn't imagine walking to a guy at a bar and saying, 'You think this song is about you? Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?'

Guys,ever get the feeling we aren't long for this world?The stupid have taken over,and that includes the music business.It's been working it's insidious way up ever since the waffle masquerading as lyrics was being pumped over us during the 60s and 70s.Check out You're so vain.Regardless of the fact that she's singing about this no good dude,she chucks in a line like the above.Say Carly,who else could this silly song of your's be about,if not this particular poser?Get the drift,guys?Sheer,ill thought out trash.Nor does the insanity stop there.Apparently this dude really gets around.He's been with underworld spies,the wives of her close friends,I mean,man,check this dude out.Guys,it's like I said.The stupid are in charge.

Surely if you were really vain you'd never think this song was about you, as it's really critical of its subject? If you were so vain, you'd never have enough self-awareness to realise you were vain, but would surely assume this song was about someone who thought they were as good as you but wasn't.

Um, if this song isn't about who she is singing to, then who could it possibly be about? So, if this person thinks it is about them, they would be merely observant, not vain.

Of course she's being insincere. Later in the song, she renigs on everything she sang at the beginning.

What does this have to do with the vain guy?

These lines, taken at face value, don't fit the song's message at all. What she must mean to be saying is that the addressee was fancying that all the girls were dreaming of being his partner. But these lines, as stated, would be highly flattering to the addressee, rather than contributing to a case for his being 'so vain'.

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"Nobody Does It Better" was the theme song from the 1977 James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me". "Nobody Does It Better" was composed by Marvin Hamlisch, with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager. And of course getting to sing a James Bond movie theme is a sign you've made it as a singer, and especially the very rare times it's been an American artist (along with Simon, they include Gladys Knight, Tina Turner, Garbage, Madonna and Nancy Sinatra).

Tag questions like "don't you?" have to occur at the end of questions. "I bet you think this song is about you" is a statement, not a question and so "don't you?" can't occur after it. The lyrics grammatically correct would be "You think this song is about you, don't you?" or "I bet you think this song is about you." with no "don't you?" at the end.

First probably refers to Saratoga Springs, New York, a major horse-racing site. Then refers to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Parts of it were in the path of an actual total solar eclipse in 1972. And then there's the Sun, if we can count real places out of this world.