Talk:Killing Me Softly with His Song

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[edit] Original explanation in intro

As of this writing the intro says: "Don McLean does not wear his glasses when performing, thus the line "he looked right through me as if I wasn't there"". Looks like original research to me. The line in the song can stand perfectly well on purely poetic grounds, in my opinion - it makes a point about the relationship between the characters in the song. But that is, exactly, my opinion. We can argue endlessly about whether it's in there because of McLean's performing without his glasses (if he even does), or whether it's for a poetic reason, or what, and all of that will be OR unless there's specific evidence of the reasons the songwriters/poet wrote that line. I think the article would be better off without this line, unless it can be cited. 216.75.183.126 (talk) 00:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)