Who were you commiserating with?
Lyrics can be whatever I want them to be & serve the purpose I select: story telling, space holding, melody carrying, seduction, damnation. I pick. If I read back and they appear self indulgent then I edit them.
Unless a person can successfully/fully write in the abstract, (and to my knowledge even manual writers have trouble being completely objective), a sense of the writer will come through the lyrics: the biases, interested, vanities, occupation and problems of the writer will be evident at some level.
I didn't use "you" in the sentences because the use of "you" is often based on the assumption that others experience things similarly to the writer. That, to me, is more indulgent that the other pronouns.
I find that the way people write in general is reflected in their lyrics, though the lyrics will be stilted in comparison.
For example, if I'd have written the text below I'd have done it something like the edited job below it.
"Everyone on social media is so self involved and insufferable, that I just want to not do that. But hell if I'm going to write a song about a racoon. So it's tough times for a lyricist. I feel like the same rules of that FB article should apply to lyrics: make people laugh, inform them, etc, but not to get self involved."
"Many users of social media are often narcissistic and I, personally, find this insufferable. I do not wish to appear to be from the same mold. If I'm going to write a song about a racoon, I'll write it. It's a tough time for me as a lyricist; I feel that the rules of the FB article I referred to should apply to all lyrics i.e, I should try to make people laugh, where possible educate them and try not to expose my own egocentricity."
They are the same message but in different styles and reflect different things about the writers. For my part I come of as a pompous git who works on the words and text in terms of grammar and consistency. I'd normally come back and edit the text in an hour's time to ensure that emotion or lack of objectivity didn't muddy the waters.
However, if the reader can empathize or sympathize with the original better than the edit then the original is the better communicator of the two.
It's about the communication of a story, value, feeling or melody.