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You're So Vain

Appears in 1 song

Associated with Carly Simon

Opalite
The Life of a Showgirl · 2025

This is just / A storm inside a teacup

Community readers hear Opalite's diminishing-storm image echoing Carly Simon's "You're So Vain", where old heartbreaks shrink to "clouds in my coffee" - both miniaturise a storm into a teacup or a cup of coffee to mark how small the old drama looks from a settled distance.

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