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* Whenever ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'s'' Team Rocket decide to forgo their usual motto in favor of a song:

''We're tired of our motto, so we thought we'd try a song.'' }}

 

 

* The [[Title Theme Tune]] from ''[[Spy Hard]]''. Of course, given [["Weird Al" Yankovic|the artist who wrote it]] and [[Parody|the type of film it is]]...

''It's the theme from Spy Hard.'' }}

* 'The Credits Song' from the ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' movie Jonah and the Big Fish.

** And then later:

* In ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', the song Do Rei Me is about singing the song Do Rei Me. The scene is a [[Training Montage]] as the characters learn how to sing.

* In ''[[The Colbert Report|A Colbert Christmas]]'', the first song is "Another Christmas Song," which is about how he wrote a christmas song and intends to make lots of money off of it.

* "So Far, So Bad" by Five Iron Frenzy. "They won't play this song on the radio. (So far, so bad. That's how it goes.) They'll pull our record from the shelves."

* [[Britney Spears]] - Everytime

And this song is my sorry }}

* ''I Write the Songs'' by Barry Manilow is the [[Trope Codifier]].

* From ''I'm Lucky'' by Jim's Big Ego:

''SORRY!'' }}

* ''Chicken and Corn'' by Annihilator:

''It's called [[Rule of Three|Chick-Chick-Chicken]] and Corn.'' }}

* Naturally, ''Your Song'' by [[Elton John]]:

''This is your song.'' }}

* Lampshaded to hell and back in the self-explanatory ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppRrbtxVD0 This Song's Just Six Words Long]'' by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].

* DaVinci's Notebook's song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734wnHnnNR4 Title of the Song]'' is made of this trope.

* Dave Soroka pushes this to another level in ''Thief Of Hearts''

''Not to start crying pity for me.'' }}

* ''The Last Song'' by All American Rejects:

''For you and only you?'' }}

** Similarly, the earlier ''Last Song'' by Edward Bear:

''And it won't be there'' }}

* Barenaked Ladies, ''What A Good Boy'':

''Chickened out, grabbed a pen and a paper, sat down and I wrote this song.'' }}

* Tenacious D does this frequently, from advising all male listeners to pay close attention at the start of their song, ''Fuck Her Gently'', to making tributes to other songs.

* Lagwagon's ''Falling Apart'':

''I forgot the words again.'' }}

* [[Lemon Demon]]'s [[Word Salad Title|Holy Bison Breaks]] is about songwriters block.

''And I decided to keep on singing 'till I had had enough.'' }}

* Tony Mason, author of ''Barney's on Fire'', did an entire '''album''' of this, with tracks such as ''Title Track'', ''Hit Single'' and ''The Song You Skip''.

* Carly Simon presents a [[Logic Bomb]] in ''You're So Vain''.

* [[Frank Sinatra]], ''I Sing the Songs''

* [[They Might Be Giants]], ''Number Three'':

''For the two songs in me, and the third one I just made.'' }}

* [[Five Iron Frenzy]], "So Far, So Bad":

So far, so bad, that's how it goes.'' }}

* [[The Beatles|Ringo Starr]], "This Be Called a Song".

* [[Pet Shop Boys]]' "All Over The World":

''You hear it playing all over the world'' }}

* [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]]'s "The Fear":

''When you're sad, when you're lonely & it all turns out wrong.'' }}

* "Kill The Director" by The Wombats

Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand" }}

* "Track #10" by the Procussions. The lyrics consist solely of variations on ''"This is track number ten!"''

* Anything by [[Fall Out Boy]]

* "Sad Songs and Waltzes" by Willie Nelson ([[Covered Up|or CAKE]]), although it's not ''necessarily'' talking about itself.

''Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year'' }}

* Subverted by "This is Not a Song, It's a Sandwich" by Psychostick. [[Captain Obvious|Which is not a song]], [[Sarcasm Mode|it's a sandwich]].

** But played straight later in the same album with "#1 Radio $ingle", which actually IS a song about itself.

''To say "Yeah!" (yeah!)'' }}

* "Only A Northern Song" by [[The Beatles]], which is actually more about the dissonance in the song than the song itself.

* George Harrison wrote "This Song" while legal action was underway regarding "My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine", saying in part:

''This song we'll let be'' }}

* [[Radiohead]]'s "My Iron Lung", which was about [[Fan Dumb]] audiences who wanted to hear "Creep" and only "Creep". It's up to interpretation whether the song is talking about itself or a hypothetical song, though, in the relevant part:

''My iron lung...'' }}

* [[Simon and Garfunkel]]'s "Song for the Asking"

''Take it, don't turn away'' }}

** Also "Leaves That Are Green"

''I'm twentytwo now, but I won't be long'' }}

* "This is the Hook" by Deadmau5, which sounds something like an electronica-backed DJing lesson.

''I like the filters. I like the grooves, but I digress.'' }}

* "When Did You Fall" by Chris Rice:

''I’d better finish this song so my lips will be free.'' }}

* "This Song for You" by Chris de Burgh, although it's not ''entirely'' self-referential.

* "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi:

* Trace Adkins' "This Ain't No Love Song" is somewhere between this and [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:

''But this ain’t no love song'' }}

* "Pop Song" by [[Jon Lajoie]]"

* Darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra's "This Song is Boring" lampshades itself with not only the words repeated ad infinitum but the same guitar riff over and over. }}

* "This Is My Song," written by Sir Charles Chaplin for his 1966 movie ''A Countess From Hong Kong'' and performed by Petula Clark.

* This portion of the last verse from [[The Beatles]]' "I Will":

Sing it loud so I can hear you, make it east to be near you }}

* Chicago's "25 Or 6 To 4" was about the song writer's bout with writer's block.

* 'West End Musical' by [[Mitch Benn]] is three of these put together.

'This is the song you've already heard...' }}

** And in [[The Now Show]] Pantomime (2010), he completed things with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwut3CgU_2Y The Very Happy Ending Song]

''But it has to go right here !'' }}

* "Song About Nothing" by <3

''But we'll just have a ball'' }}

* ''Dragon Road'' song -- not Akira Kushida's, [[Dungeons and Dragons]] themed filk one ("It was on the first of August...").

* [[Sparks]]' "Strange Animal" is about someone escaping the police by somehow walking into a song, although it's never quite specified that it's the song you're now hearing. At one point he begins to criticize the very song he's now part of ("But this song lacks a heart \ comes off overly smart"), and in the end it seems that he murders everyone else in the song and tries to change it into something more to his liking ("You're in need of a fix \ of a total remix \ so I must kill you all").

* The lyrics to King Crimson's song "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With" from their album "The Power to Believe" is filled with this trope. Here is a sample:

''And this seems to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face'' }}

* ''Hook'' by [[Blues Traveler]] is entirely about itself, describing how the hook brings you back, confessing that he doesn't mean any of what he is singing, and how the lyrics affect the listener, among other things.

* Several songs in ''[[Spamalot]]'' fall under this, most notably ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tldP-seoQX8 The Song That Goes Like This]''.

* "Poppa's Blues" from ''[[Starlight Express]]''.

So by the time you get to the third line you've had time to think up a rhyme.'' }}

* "Untitled Opening Number" from [[Title of Show]] is mostly one of these.

But it's the starting point for our musical'' }}

 

 

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Sarah's cellphone has [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-12-03 this] little gem:

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' has ''This is the Song That Goes On Forever'', in a parody of the aforementioned ''Song That Doesn't End''.

* The final line of the [[Title Theme Tune]] of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' is:

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has the ''Fireside Girls'':

''And it's not too terribly long.'' }}

* [[SpongeBob|SpongeBob Squarepants]]'s "The Campfire Song Song".