Songs that get all meta and mention 'this song' in the lyrics

And just before dawn at the paling of the sky,
The stranger returned and said "Now I must fly,
When two thousand years of your time has gone by,
This song will begin once again, to a baby's cry"

Lenny Cohen - Sisters of Mercy.

"And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song"

I posted that one right at the beginning of this thread. He also does it again in "ballad of the absent mare"

I searched and everything! Bah.

Dreams are for those who sleep
Life is for us to keep
And if you're wondering what this song is leading to,
I want to make it with you

Barry & the Bookbinders - 'This Song'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXwba5xApwo

I forgot one of my favorites:

"My slow descent
into alcoholism
it went
something like this song"

https://youtu.be/WtZDxzlGbN4

This songs just six words long

(Hey) all the blood that I will bleed
(Ho) I don't know where I belong
(Hey) I don't know where I went wrong
(Ho) but I can write a song (hey)

One of the most egregious examples.

Hiss Golden Messenger - O Little Light

A blue sky bends for me
No master, I am free
Riding 'round in the rain
With this song I'm singing

I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long.

oh dammit how's life beat me to it

Brainstorm, take me away from the norm'
I've got to tell you something
This phenomenon, I had to put it in a song
And it goes like
Whoa, amber is the color of your energy
Whoa, shades of gold display naturally

and i'll know my song well before i start singing
and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard rain that's gonna fall

If you wonder how long I'll be faithful
Well, just listen to how this song ends
I'm gonna love you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

As the moon beats yellow, the clouds they settle
to this our favourite song...

But I hate this room, and I hate this tune...

Lee Hazlewood - I'll Live Yesterdays

Seems we’re always doing something to hurt each other
But you know, you never really hurt me until the fourth verse of this song

Kanye West - Touch the Sky

I'm tryin' to right my wrongs
But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song

mother do you think they'll like this song?

Elton John welcomes you to his Christmas song, Step Into Christmas, in its first line.

GusGus goes extra meta in "Add This Song"

Add this song to your list
Play it til it no more exist

Through the pain of the snow
Is there nowhere to go
Like I'm stuck in the state
Of no state at all

As I wandered alone in the darkest night
Heard this song at the rave
And it saved my life

(i did add it to my list)

Back to the opening post, "It's hard to say the meaning of this song" in Ambulance Blues is the thesis statement for the entire On the Beach album!

Edward Bear, “Last Song”

It's the last song I'll ever write for you
It's the last time that I'll tell you
Just how much I really care
This is the last song I'll ever sing for you
You'll come looking for the light
And it won't be there
But I love you
Oh yes I do
Yes I do

Also on this similar thread: songs that are about themselves

John Prine, "Leave the Lights On"

This is just a long song, it ain't no poem
Leave the lights on till your baby gets home

Brinsley Schwarz, “Love Song”

This here is a love song
I gotta get back to my baby's heart again
This here is a love song
And I'm gonna sing it till I get back home

Which is also mentioned on this similar thread: Songs that are aware of themselves

Barenaked Ladies, "What A Good Boy"

I couldn't tell you
I was wrong
Chickened out grabbed a pen and a paper
Sat down and I wrote this song

Tom Waits, "Hold On"

Down by the Riverside motel
It's ten below and falling
By a ninety-nine cent store
She closed her eyes and started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Oh, your old hometown's so far away
But inside your head there's a record that's playing
A song called "Hold On"